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Jack Thompson, our favorite war correspondent
Jack Thompson of the Chicago Tribune parachuted into Algeria and Sicily, went ashore on Omaha Beach 90 minutes after H-Hour, and was present for the U.S. linkup with the Russians at the Elbe.
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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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Covering the Day of Days
Seventy-seven years after Allied troops landed in Normandy, we run through the timeline of how D-Day news coverage unfolded on June 6, 1944.
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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.
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Remembering journalists killed covering World War II
Remembering the war correspondents who died on assignment while covering World War II.
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Germany 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.
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Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon
On May 5, 1945, a Japanese bomb exploded in an Oregon forest, killing six civilians — the only Americans killed by enemy action in the continental U.S. during World War II.
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Hitler’s demise: ‘The bloody dog is dead’
The German announcement that Adolf Hitler was dead spawned more skepticism than celebration among the Allies.
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Ernie 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.
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Murrow at Buchenwald: ‘I pray you to believe what I have said’
Edward R. Murrow wasn’t the first correspondent to file a report from newly liberated Buchenwald, but his harrowing dispatch had a sizable impact on public opinion.
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