Operation Dragoon: ‘The decisive blow for France’
On Aug. 15, 1944, U.S. troops followed by French forces landed on the Riviera, a move met by little German resistance despite clear signs an invasion was imminent.
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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.
Read moreGermany surrenders: Ed Kennedy’s day of infamy
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.
Read moreHitler’s demise: ‘The bloody dog is dead’
The German announcement that Adolf Hitler was dead spawned more skepticism than celebration among the Allies.
Read moreErnie Pyle killed on Ie Shima
The fighting man lost its best friend and greatest advocate on April 18, 1945, when Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner on Ie Shima.
Read moreOkinawa: The ‘easy’ victory that wasn’t
On April 1, 1945, U.S. soldiers and marines walked virtually unopposed onto the shores of Okinawa. They didn’t believe victory could be so easy. It wouldn’t be.
Read moreCrossing the Rhine: The Bridge at Remagen
The 9th Armored Division’s thrust across the Rhine on March 7, 1945 caught everyone off guard, war correspondents included.
Read moreBethnal Green tragedy shakes London
An air raid that wasn’t sparked the worst civilian disaster of the war in the UK, leaving 173 people dead in a tube station.
Read moreThe Writing 69th flies to Wilhelmshaven
In February 1943, a specially trained group of correspondents accompanied an Eighth Air Force bombing raid over Germany. One would not return.
Read moreBombing 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.
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