Month: February 2021
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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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Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima
The story of perhaps the defining image of World War II, captured atop Mount Suribachi by an AP photographer on Feb. 23, 1945.
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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 the bombing.
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Guy Byam sought danger until the end
After surviving a German attack that killed most of his Royal Navy shipmates, Guy Byam arrived by parachute to cover Operation Overlord and Operation Market Garden for the BBC.
World War II on Deadline 