The Malmedy Massacre: News that hardened a nation
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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Dorie Miller at Pearl Harbor: Telling a hero’s story
The heroic tale of Dorie Miller has become a familiar part of World War II lore, but it took months after the Pearl Harbor attack — and plenty of digging by one newspaper in particular — to bring Miller’s identity to light.
Read more‘Nuts!’: Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s legendary Bastogne rebuff
When retired Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe died in 1975, both the headline and the first sentence of his New York Times obituary prominently featured perhaps the most famous one-word sentence in United States history: “Nuts!” The fact that McAuliffe rated a lengthy news obituary in the paper of record was attributable mostly to that single word, typed at his direction
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