Month: September 2020
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Operation Market Garden: Dropping in on Holland
In its earliest hours, Operation Market Garden seemed yet another Allied success. But correspondents on the ground soon realized little was going to plan, and their reports from the field reflected the increasingly dire situation — particularly near Arnhem.
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Peleliu: Hitting the beach with the Marines
Correspondents watching from offshore had an uneasy feeling as they eyed the small island of Peleliu, which seemed “too still” after a three-day bombardment. Those concerns proved valid when the 1st Marine Division went ashore to face a hellscape of dug-in Japanese defenders who would fight on for more than two months.
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Captured by the Nazis: War correspondent to POW
On September 12, 1944, war correspondents Edward Beattie, Wright Bryan and John Mecklin were captured by German troops in France. Suddenly, they were the news instead of the ones reporting on it.
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‘Today the guns are silent’: Japan surrenders
At 9:18 a.m. Tokyo time on Sunday, September 2, 1945, World War II came to an end. The war correspondents aboard the USS Missouri that day shared not only the details of the surrender ceremony but their reflections on what had brought the world to this long-awaited moment.
World War II on Deadline 