Remembering journalists killed covering World War II
Remembering the war correspondents who died on assignment while covering World War II.
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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.
Read moreD-Day: Behind enemy lines with a typewriter
Paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions jumped with 125 to 150 pounds of equipment on D-Day, loaded down with whatever they might need to be self-sufficient until the linkup with seaborne troops or aerial resupply arrived. Time correspondent William Walton didn’t jump with a radio or machine gun components like some of his compatriots, but he did strap
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World War II on Deadline 