The "Baltimore Sun" covered World War II with an outstanding
team of combat correspondents, among them three future Pulitzer
Prize winners. The correspondents witnessed momentous events: Anzio
and Cassino, D-Day, Black Christmas in the Bulge, the crossing of
the Rhine, the link up with the Russians on the Elbe, the German
surrender at Rheims, the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the
Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. "Missouri."
They took enormous risks. Price Day was in action at Anzio and
Cassino; Holbrook Bradley landed with the 29th Division on the
Normandy beaches. Lee McCardell narrowly escaped death when a bomb
exploded near his jeep. Howard Norton was 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 on the execution of Mussolini. Day and McCardell
were among the first to file stories on Nazi atrocities and death
camps. The doyen of these correspondents, Mark Watson, wrote
prescient articles on military strategy. All of them sent back
gritty stories of the endurance and humor of ordinary GIs.
This was 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 today's
electronic era, these newspaper men were working at a time when
print journalism was 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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