...A group of legendary journalists reported America’s war against Nazi Germany, including the broadcasting pioneers Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, the unpretentious reporter Ernie Pyle, and the dashing photographers Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White. The introduction shows why...

... when Ernie Pyle arrived at the front, and immediately began to establish a big reputation with stories that detailed the everyday life of the fighting man—stories that, crucially, were not time-sensitive and did not go stale if they arrived late. Aletti Hotel Eisenhower Dwight D Middleton Drew...

... censorship Ernie Pyle Drew Middleton Dwight Eisenhower Anglo-American relations Chicago Tribune PROs The German tanks lumbered out of the Faïd Pass in Tunsia at dawn on Sunday, February 14. Commanded by Rommel, they belonged to Wehrmacht units that had been at the forefront in defeating France in 1940...

...When Ernie Pyle arrived on Omaha beach on June 7 he found that his colleagues had survived, but the danger was far from over. After American forces fought fierce battles to seize the western coast of the Cotentin peninsula, the vicious street fighting in Cherbourg and then the brutal stalemate...

... Life Luce Henry Omaha beach Scherschel Frank censorship Whitehead Don Canada Daniel Clifton Falaise battle of Anzio Bigart Homer Morrison Chester NBC Packard Reynolds radio Rome Sevareid Eric London Smith Thor M Operation Cobra friendly fire Drew Middleton Ernie Pyle air force...

... of Paris Don Whitehead Ernie Pyle Bill Stoneman John Thompson Drew Middletn Operation Market-Garden George Patton Aachen As August 1944 drew to a close, the entire press corps was afflicted with a single malady. It went by the name of dateline desperation, and its origin could not have been...

... of important practical improvements at the front, including military chaperones and forward press camps. Bill Stoneman, Ernie Pyle, Wes Gallagher, and Drew Middleton all reported the last hard yards into Tunis and Bizerte. At the end of the victorious campaign they reflected on the efficacy of military-media...

... Press UP Capa Robert Hemingway Ernest Life Stoneman Bill Whitehead Don Ancon USS Thompson John Augusta USS Omaha beach Samuel Chase USS D-Day Ernie Pyle Dwight Eisenhower media-military relations censorship Bill Stoneman Don Whitehead John Thompson Robert Capa None of the reporters...

... to Japan during World War II. At the Hawk’s Well Itō touring of fusion theater Horton Lester Itō Michio modernism modanizumu noh Old Man character shingeki modern theater new drama Yamada Kosçak Kosaku Easley Margaret Emperor Jones The O’Neill Ernie Pyle Theater formerly Takarazuka Theatre Itō...

..., these improvements reaped a large reward, with the prompt publication of Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture of the flag raising on the top of Mount Suribachi. During the next campaign, on Okinawa, the correspondents struggled to achieve the same impact. Ernie Pyle, the most prominent of them, fell to an enemy bullet...

... reporters strived to avoid being mere ciphers of the American military and often sought to accurately document events as they unfolded. The journalism of Ernie Pyle and the editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin proved influential in explaining to fellow GIs and the broader public the experiences of front-line...

... Salomon Sidney Sicily invasion of vii Whitehead Don Rudder James Yank magazine Commando Gordon Holman Ernie Pyle raid Ranger “The Ranger gets recognition when he crawls black-faced into the enemy’s lines—he earns it.” So starts a short and author-less article in the back pages of a March 1944...

...Ernie Pyle arrived in Italy in November 1943 worn out by his earlier battlefield experiences. As the Allied campaign bogged down around a series of impressive German defensive positions, which were shielded both by rivers and mountains, Pyle found it easy to inject a note of realistic pessimism...

... Cassino Anzio Homer Bigart Cyrus Sulzberger Ernie Pyle radio broadcasting Eric Sevareid Mark Clark liberation of Rome Despite the gloom, grime, and gore, Rome seemed tantalizingly by the middle of January 1944. After six weeks and sixteen thousand casualties, the Fifth Army had finally made...

... officers PROs Redding John M Roosevelt Franklin D Smith Thor M “sphere of legitimate controversy ” Surles Alexander D Middleton Drew Stoneman Bill Thompson John Whitehead Don Life war correspondents World War II Nazi Germany Ernie Pyle Robert Capa Dwight Eisenhower Franklin Roosevelt...

... is the epic journey of such reporters as Wes Gallagher and Don Whitehead of the Associated Press, Drew Middleton of the New York Times, Bill Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News, and John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune; of columnists like Ernie Pyle and Hal...