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Thomas D. Howie: The Major of Saint-Lô
The story of Maj. Thomas D. Howie moved readers before they even knew his name.
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Jack Thompson jumps into Sicily
Eighty years ago today, Chicago Tribune correspondent Jack Thompson parachuted into Sicily with Allied troops.
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D-Day: Correspondents covering the Day of Days
Seventy-nine years ago today, Allied troops landed in Normandy. Here’s a rundown of how June 6, 1944 unfolded from the perspective of the men and women…
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John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
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Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
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American hero John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima
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Jim Bates films a tank battle in Cologne
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D-Day: Joan Ellis and the AP's accidental invasion flash
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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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Leo S. Disher, first correspondent to earn a Purple Heart
The 30-year-old United Press newsman was wounded multiple times covering the opening day of Operation Torch in North Africa.
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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
The story behind one of the most famous news photographs in history and the unfounded controversy that follows it decades later.
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Lionel Shapiro needed a decade to find perspective on his D-Day experience
As he sat down to write perhaps the most important story of his life to date, Lionel Shapiro knew he didn’t have all the raw material he needed — and he…
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Doug Werner's D-Day notebook
Merle McDougald Werner spent 15 years as a United Press correspondent, but one day in that span stood out as his most memorable on the job.
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Red Mueller: D-Day (and beyond) with Ike
Of the four correspondents assigned to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters on D-Day, Merrill "Red" Mueller of NBC was the only one who had a prior…
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Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis
Dozens of journalists died covering World War II, some of them victims of stray bullets or shrapnel, others aboard planes or ships that went down in…
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