Liberating the Eternal City
On June 4, 1944, Allied troops liberated Rome. Correspondents who had covered the brutal slog through Italy reveled in the moment.
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Bombing Monte Cassino
The decision to destroy a centuries-old monastery on an Italian hilltop remains controversial to this day, but soldiers on the ground had no qualms with the bombing.
Read moreAudie Murphy’s overlooked heroics
Audie Murphy became perhaps the most famous American foot soldier of World War II, but the press didn’t catch on to his story until he was done fighting.
Read moreBrothers reunite on the beach at Anzio
War correspondents of the 1940s came from a variety of journalistic backgrounds. Some had been foreign correspondents, but many more were writing about city hall or sports before finding themselves on the front lines of the biggest story of the century. Price Day had done his share of nuts-and-bolts newspaper work before shipping overseas in December 1943 to cover the
Read moreHenry T. Waskow and the Ernie Pyle tribute that made him famous
By the end of 1943, Ernie Pyle’s dispatches had become the indispensable lens through which Americans on the home front viewed their war. Though he was twice as old as many of the men whose toils he chronicled, Pyle’s humble, in-the-trenches approach endeared him to four-stars and grunts alike. All it took was a glance at a couple of his
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World War II on Deadline 