D-Day with Ike: Red Mueller at Eisenhower’s headquarters
Merrill “Red” Mueller of NBC spent nearly four months attached to Eisenhower’s HQ from D-Day on.
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D-Day: Correspondents balance ambition, fear ahead of invasion
The classic bit that sums up the tension between the press and its handlers ahead of the Normandy Invasion first appeared in Leonard Lyons’ syndicated column on June 12, 1944: Shortly before the invasion began, Britain’s Ministry of Information was besieged by hundreds of newspapermen seeking credentials to cover the story. For a while the confusion seemed interminable. One disgruntled
Read moreErnest Hemingway invades London ahead of D-Day
Gertrude Lawrence had been trying for some time to get back home after spending years in the United States. The actress finally secured a seat from New York to London on the Pan-Am Clipper in mid-May 1944 but worried to a fellow passenger right up until takeoff that she might get bumped from the flight. “If I lose this seat
Read moreD-Day: George Hicks brings the sound of battle into your living room
In the final minutes of June 6, 1944, Blue Network correspondent George Hicks began recording one of the signature radio reports of World War II.
Read moreD-Day: Utah Beach with Kenneth Crawford
Newsweek’s Ken Crawford went ashore with the first wave on Utah Beach, an experience that led to one of the most memorable eyewitness accounts of D-Day.
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