Tag: Merrill "Red" Mueller
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Gen. George S. Patton and the slaps heard ’round the world
In two incidents a week apart in August 1943, Gen. George S. Patton slapped soldiers in field hospitals in Sicily. Though war correspondents knew about at least one incident almost immediately, they chose not to report it and the news didn’t become public until three months later.
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‘Today the guns are silent’: Japan surrenders
At 9:18 a.m. Tokyo time on Sunday, September 2, 1945, World War II came to an end. The war correspondents aboard the USS Missouri that day shared not only the details of the surrender ceremony but their reflections on what had brought the world to this long-awaited moment.
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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.
World War II on Deadline 