List of war correspondents in World War II
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This is a list of war correspondents in World War II.
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[edit]- Ralph Barnes, New York Herald Tribune, killed in a plane crash in Yugoslavia in 1940 while on his way to cover Mussolini's invasion of Greece
- Jack Belden, LIFE[1]
- Homer Bigart, New York Herald Tribune[2]
- Bill Boss, The Canadian Press
- Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), first American female war photojournalist, photographed Buchenwald concentration camp
- Hal Boyle, Associated Press
- Cecil Brown, CBS
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Sonderführer in a propaganda unit of the Kriegsmarine
- Christopher Buckley, The Daily Telegraph[3][4]
- Wilfred Burchett, Australian war correspondent, first Western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the atomic bombing
- Winston Burdett, CBS Radio Network, one of the Murrow Boys
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, who was in Honolulu at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Became one of the oldest war correspondents ever.
C
[edit]- Robert Capa, Collier's, then Life, Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist
- Dickey Chapelle, National Geographic, American photojournalist
- Greg Clarke (1892–1977), Canadian war correspondent
- Alexander Clifford, Daily Mail
- Charles Collingwood, CBS Radio Network, one of the Murrow Boys
- Don Cook, New York Herald Tribune (1920-1995), War correspondent
- Walter Cronkite, United Press
D
[edit]- Daniel De Luce, Associated Press[5][6]
- Richard Dimbleby, the BBC's first war correspondent
- David Divine, The Sunday Times[7]
- Bill Downs, CBS News
- David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist and combat photographer
E
[edit]- Kurt Eggers, World War II SS correspondent, editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps, killed while reporting on the battles near Kharkov
G
[edit]- Martha Gellhorn, Collier's, third wife of fellow war correspondent and writer Ernest Hemingway
- Frank Gervasi, Collier's Weekly
- Frank Gillard, BBC
- Nakayama Gishu, pen name of Japanese war correspondent Yoshihide Takama (1900–1969)[8]
- Henry Tilton Gorrell, United Press
- Tom Grandin, CBS, an original member of the Murrow Boys
- Vasily Grossman, Krasnaya Zvezda, a Russian official newspaper
H
[edit]- Matthew Halton, Toronto Star, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Vernon Arnold Haugland, Associated Press. First civilian awarded the Silver Star.
- Thomas Healy, Daily Mirror (North African campaign), New York Post (Anzio and subsequent Italian campaign 1944–1945)
- Macdonald Hastings, Picture Post
- Ernest Hemingway, Colliers
- Frank Hewlett, United Press
- Marguerite Higgins, New York Herald Tribune
- Clare Hollingworth, The Daily Telegraph[9]
- Johannes-Matthias Hönscheid, German correspondent who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
- Richard C. Hottelet, United Press, later CBS. Last surviving member of the Murrow Boys.
- Peggy Hull
J
[edit]K
[edit]- Clair Kenamore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Ed Kennedy, Associated Press
- Helen Kirkpatrick, Chicago Daily News
- Betty Knox, London Evening Standard
L
[edit]- Thomas C. Lea III, Life magazine
- Larry LeSueur, CBS radio correspondent. One of the "Murrow Boys".
- Eric Lloyd Williams, South African Press Association and Reuters
- Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers
M
[edit]- Alexander Gault MacGowan, The Sun (New York)
- John MacVane, NBC
- Curzio Malaparte, Corriere della Sera, Italian war correspondent
- Jim McGlincy, United Press
- John MacVane, NBC News
- Drew Middleton, The New York Times[13]
- Alan Moorehead, Daily Express
- Ralph Morse, career staff photographer for Life magazine, noted for his photo of a burnt-out Japanese tank in a clearing with a skull and helmet on the fender
- Joseph Morton, Associated Press, only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis during World War II
- Leonard Mosley, Allied Newspapers
- Edward R. Murrow, CBS News. Assembled a team of foreign correspondents for CBS News who became known as the "Murrow Boys".
N
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[edit]- Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, CBS Radio Network, first female member of Murrow's Boys
- George Sessions Perry, Harper's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post
- William Pidgeon, The Australian Women's Weekly
- Roy Pinney, freelance war photographer who sold to Life, Look, Colliers, Woman's Day and other magazines
- Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Pyle was killed by a machine-gun burst on the island of Iejima in April 1945.
R
[edit]- Quentin Reynolds, Collier's Weekly
- John Rich, NBC News
- Inez Robb, International News Service
- Andy Rooney, Stars and Stripes
S
[edit]- Frederic Salusbury, Daily Herald
- Sigrid Schultz, Chicago Tribune
- Eric Sevareid, CBS Radio Network, one of the original Murrow Boys
- Robert Sherrod, Time and Life magazines
- Bill Shadel, CBS Radio Network
- Charles Shaw, CBS
- Robert Sherrod, Time and Life magazines
- William L. Shirer, CBS Radio, one of the "Murrow Boys", and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Howard K. Smith, CBS Radio, one of the original Murrow Boys
- Donald Starr, Chicago Tribune
- John Steinbeck, New York Herald Tribune
- Edmund Stevens, Christian Science Monitor[14]
T
[edit]- Richard Tregaskis, International News Service. Author of Guadalcanal Diary, which was dramatized in the movie of same name.
V
[edit]W
[edit]- Betty Wason, CBS
- Alan Whicker, British Army's Film and Photo Unit
- Osmar White, The Herald and Weekly Times
- Don Whitehead, Associated Press[15]
- Eric Lloyd Williams, Reuters/South African Press Association[16]
- Chester Wilmot, BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
References
[edit]- ^ "Jack Belden, Journalist, 79". The New York Times. New York. June 6, 1989. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Reporter Homer Bigart, famed war correspondent". Pittsburgh Press. April 17, 1991. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ Howse, Christopher (March 16, 2009). "Alan Whicker interview: a journey of a lifetime". The Daily Telegraph. London. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Details for Buckley, Christopher". The Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial. Archived from the original on October 28, 2004. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Telegraphic Reporting (International)". pulitzer.org. 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Daniel De Luce obituary". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. January 31, 2002. p. 9B. Retrieved May 24, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ David Divine obituary, The Times, 2 May 1987
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). "Hyōbusho" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 692., p. 692, at Google Books
- ^ Addley, Esther (January 17, 2004). ""A foreign affair": Clare Hollingworth". The Guardian. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ Reference to Denis Johnston's autobiography Archived September 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jordan, Philip (1943). Jordan's Tunis Diary. London: Collins.
Jordan also covered the Spanish civil war, other regions and parts of the Russian front prior to arriving in Tunis in November 1942.
- ^ "Battle of Africa: Full Measure of Blood". TIME. February 15, 1943. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ Pace, Eric (January 12, 1990). "Drew Middleton of The Times Dies at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Edmund Stevens, 81, a Reporter In Moscow for 40 Years, Is Dead". The New York Times. May 27, 1992. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ "Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary And Memoirs by John B. Romeiser". allbookstores.com. 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ^ Whitehead, Don; Romeiser, John Beals (2006). Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs. Fordham University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8232-2675-7. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
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