“His weeks, the weeks he describes from July 26th to September 26th, were the worst weeks, the almost hopeless weeks. 7, 1942, and lived with them for the first two months of that campaign. The war’s greatest correspondent, Ernie Pyle, traveled the globe and survived many a land battle, only to die near the conflict’s end on Ie Shima off Okinawa after being hit by Japanese machine gun fire.Īnother war correspondent giant was International News Service reporter Richard Tregaskis, who landed with the Marines on Guadalcanal on Aug. Walter Cronkite and others flew as observers in bombers during missions. Murrow filed radio reports from London during the Blitz. The best of them went into harm’s way to get their stories. Their ranks included famous authors (Ernest Hemingway and Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs) and women (photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gelhorn, and Marguerite Higgins among others). Hundreds received their credentials and though civilians, they wore military uniforms bearing the insignias of their profession. For journalists, being a war correspondent in World War II was the opportunity of a lifetime.
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