Jack Thompson of the Chicago Tribune parachuted into Algeria and Sicily, went ashore on Omaha Beach 90 minutes after H-Hour, and was present for the U.S. linkup with the Russians at the Elbe.
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Seventy-seven years after Allied troops landed in Normandy, we run through the timeline of how D-Day news coverage unfolded on June 6, 1944.
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Remembering the war correspondents who died on assignment while covering World War II.
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Edward Kennedy of the Associated Press gained international fame, then infamy, when he became the first correspondent to report the end of the war in Europe.
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The fighting man lost its best friend and greatest advocate on April 18, 1945, when Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner on Ie Shima.
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Edward R. Murrow wasn’t the first correspondent to file a report from newly liberated Buchenwald, but his harrowing dispatch had a sizable impact on public opinion.
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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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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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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.
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Joe Morton made his name as a war correspondent by striking out on his own in out-of-the-way places. His last solo mission would end up costing him his life.
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