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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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Marc Lancaster
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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Marc Lancaster
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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Marc Lancaster
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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Marc Lancaster

January 2023

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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Marc Lancaster
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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Marc Lancaster
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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Marc Lancaster
'We just walked': Anzio and the peril of first impressions
The all-but-unopposed Allied landings at Anzio on Jan. 22, 1944 seemed too good to be true to the correspondents on the ground.
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