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• Pictured above is the Time Magazine war correspondent Bill Walton (1910 – 1994), who jumped into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne Division the evening of June 5th - he wore his typewriter strapped to his chest. General Eisenhower had ordered all reporters in forward positions to wear sidearms.

• For newspapers, the first eyewitness account (airplane view) came from Gladwin A. Hill (1914 - 1992)... whom the AP calls 'the Air Marshall'. He flew to France in a B-26 and returned by prearrangement to a base near London where, also by prearrangement, telephone facilities awaited him.

• Henry T. Gorrell (1911 – 1958), veteran United Press correspondent, apparently got the first account through from the beachhead. Datelined from 'North Central France'.

• To Bert Brandt (1916 - 1975), aggressive Acme photographer, went undisputed honors. His picture of tanks and troops boarding an invasion [craft] reached America within four hours after the communiqué.

• The first complete account of the beachhead assault - by a correspondent who was in the first wave - was wired by Kennith Crawford (1902 - 1983), of Newsweek (Click here to read that article).

• The first reporters to be wounded: Henry B. Jameson (1913 - 1986) of the Associated Press and David Woodward of The Manchester Guardian.

Click here to read more about W.W. II war corespondents...

Click here to read articles about the D-Day invasion...

Click here to read about the extensive press coverage that was devoted to the death of FDR...

     


Reporting D-Day (Newsweek Magazine, 1944)

Reporting D-Day (Newsweek Magazine, 1944)

Reporting D-Day (Newsweek Magazine, 1944)

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