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Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II

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The Baltimore Sun covered World War II with a great team of combat correspondents, among them three future Pulitzer Prize winners. The correspondents witnessed momentous events: Anzio and Cassino, D-Day, Black Christmas within the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine, the link up with the Russians at the Elbe, the German give up at Rheims, the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Japanese give up on the usS. Missouri.

They took enormous risks. Price Day used to be in action at Anzio and Cassino; Holbrook Bradley landed with the 29th Division at the Normandy beaches. Lee McCardell narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded near his jeep. Howard Norton used to be on a sub chaser when a Japanese shell killed most of its crew. Philip Heisler’s escort carrier nearly capsized in a typhoon.

They filed stories from the front lines of history. Norton scooped the world at the execution of Mussolini. Day and McCardell were a few of the first to file stories on Nazi atrocities and death camps. The doyen of these correspondents, Mark Watson, wrote prescient articles on military strategy. They all sent back gritty stories of the endurance and humor of abnormal GIs.

This used to be a time when correspondents wore uniforms, censors could block their stories, and journalists wrote on portable typewriters and traveled dozens of miles to file their copy. Enjoying a personal freedom of movement and decision-making unknown in lately’s electronic era, these newspaper men were working at a time when print journalism used to be the prime medium for news. Their dispatches, which reported the war with the immediacy of real time, make up the core of this book.


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