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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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 9th Armored Division’s thrust across the Rhine on March 7, 1945 caught everyone off guard, war correspondents included.
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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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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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Dick Winters might be the best-known soldier of World War II, but the heroics immortalized in “Band of Brothers” barely received notice at the time.
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first news conference as Supreme Allied Commander established his vision of a mutually beneficial relationship with the press.
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On Dec. 17, 1944, German troops gunned down more than 80 unarmed U.S. prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium. News of the atrocity was on front pages worldwide within a day.
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