Bethnal Green tragedy shakes London
An air raid that wasn’t sparked the worst civilian disaster of the war in the UK, leaving 173 people dead in a tube station.
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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.
Read moreGuy 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.
Read more‘Orchestrated Hell’: Edward R. Murrow over Berlin
Last night, some of the young gentlemen of the RAF took me to Berlin. Edward R. Murrow was nothing if not cool, as the opening sentence of perhaps his most famous wartime report makes clear. Seated before a microphone at the BBC’s London studios on December 3, 1943, Murrow spent 18 minutes walking CBS listeners through his experience accompanying a
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World War II on Deadline 