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Doon Campbell, one-handed war correspondent
Only 23 years old when he began covering the fighting in Italy, the Scot distinguished himself repeatedly as the war ground across Europe before moving on to the CBI theater in 1945.
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Crossing the Rhine: The bridge at Remagen
Word of Allied troops' stunning Rhine crossing on March 7, 1945 sent correspondents scrambling to cover one of the biggest developments of the European…
Marc Lancaster
Mar 7
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The Bethnal Green tragedy shakes London
An air raid that wasn't sparked the worst civilian disaster of the war in the UK, leaving 173 people dead in a tube station.
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Mar 3
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John Steinbeck goes to war
The Pulitzer-winning novelist spent several months as a correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune in 1943.
Marc Lancaster
Feb 27
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The Writing 69th flies to Wilhelmshaven
In February 1943, a specially trained group of correspondents accompanied an Eighth Air Force bombing raid over Germany. One would not return.
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Feb 26
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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
The man who captured what is to many the defining image of World War II -- and one of the great news photographs in history -- was rejected for military…
Marc Lancaster
Feb 23
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John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
It was rare for the death of any individual fighting man to make national news, but John Basilone's did. Already a Medal of Honor recipient, he insisted…
Marc Lancaster
Feb 19
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Bombing Monte Cassino
The decision to destroy a centuries-old monastery on an Italian hilltop remains controversial to this day, but soldiers on the ground had no qualms with…
Marc Lancaster
Feb 15
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