
Published online:
23 March 2017
Published in print:
01 June 2017
Online ISBN:
9780190660659
Print ISBN:
9780190660628
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The Rock of Gibraltar The Rock of Gibraltar
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A Dearth of Dramatic News A Dearth of Dramatic News
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An Excess of Entertainment An Excess of Entertainment
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Casey, Steven, 'Invasion, 1942', The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany (New York , 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Mar. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190660628.003.0003, accessed 6 May 2025.
Abstract
A small number of correspondents hit the North African beaches on D-Day 1942, among them Leo Disher, Bill Stoneman, and Hal Boyle. But a combination of combat chaos and communications failures meant that they were unable to tell the home front about the GIs’ first taste of combat. Instead, the invasion story was largely told by headquarters-based correspondents, especially Wes Gallagher of the Associated Press. During a long and illustrious career, Gallagher acquired a reputation as a fearless truth teller. In his first experience of America’s war he largely toed the military line, reiterating the rose-tinted accounts that Eisenhower’s press team fed him.
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