Reporting World War II

1. American journalism, 1938-1944

2. American journalism, 1944-1946.

E.B. White: Beautiful upon a hill: United Nations conference: San Francisco, May 1945

Phelps Adams: Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill: Kamikaze raid off Okinawa: May 1945

Shelley Mydans: Guam holdouts give up: Japanese soldiers surrender: Spring 1945

William L. Laurence: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki told by flight member: Giant pillar of purple fire: Nagasaki, August 9, 1945

Homer Bigart: Japan signs, Second World War is ended: Japanese surrender: September 2, 1945

Homer Bigart: Month after the atom bomb: Hiroshima still can't believe it: Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945

John Hersey: Hiroshima: Bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946.

Vol. 1. It's all over: Munich conference: September 1938 / William L. Shirer

Peace-And the crisis begins: Germany occupies the Sudetenland: October 1, 1938 / Dorothy Thompson

Aufenthalt in Rosenheim: Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938 / Vincent Sheean

Hitler seizes 20,000 Jews: Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938 / Sigrid Schultz

At dawn this morning Hitler moved against Poland: War begins: September 1-3, 1939 / William L. Shirer

Last Warsaw fort yields to Germans: Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939 / Otto D. Tolischus

Nazi-red animosity described along tense frontier border in Poland: Poland caught between Hitler and Stalin: November 1939 / Sonia Tomara

Paris postscript: Paris before the fall: May-June 1940 / A.J. Liebling

Beginning of the end: Flight from Paris: June 1940 / Virginia Cowles

I first saw the ruins of Dunkerque: With the victorious German army: June 1940 / John Fisher

French conceal despair; Move as automatons: French capitulation: June 17, 1940 / Sonia Tomara

Revengeful, triumphant hate: French humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940 / William L. Shirer

Can they take it? London blitz: September 1940 / Edward R. Murrow

Hour will come when one of us will break: Berlin after a year of war: September 1940: William L. Shirer

Blitzkrieg reporting: American correspondents in Berlin: 1940 / Ernest R. Pope

This dreadful masterpiece: London on fire: Raid of December 29, 1940 / Ernie Pyle

Life without redemption: Londoners in the underground: January 1941 / Ernie Pyle

Retreat of Serbs related by writer: German invasion of Yugoslavia: April 1941 / G.L. Sulzberger

Under fire: German invasion of Greece: April 1941 / Robert St. John

Remoteness from the war affected everybody: Witness to war returns to America: 1940-41 / A.J. Liebling

Way of subjects: Formulating Japanese imperial ideology: August 1941 / Otto D. Tolischus

See you in Lisbon: Refugees in flight from central Europe: August 1941 / Wes Gallagher

Tokyo army aide bids Japan fight if parleys fail: Signs of impending war with Japan: September 1941 / Otto D. Tolischus

Death and life on the battlefields: On the Russian front: September 1941 / Margaret Bourke-White

Valhalla in transition: Berlin after the invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941 / Howard K. Smith

Worst news that I have encountered in the last 120 years: American first rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941 / Robert Hagy

President's war message: America declares war: December 8, 1941 / New York Herald Tribune

This is for keeps: Roundup of American reporters in Tokyo: December 1941 / Max Hill

War hits Manila: Japan attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941 / Melville Jacoby

Prepare to abandon ship: Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941 / Cecil Brown

Tanks and cannons standing starkly in the snow: Devastation on the Moscow front: December 1941 / Larry Lesueur

Malay jungle war: British complacency in Malaya: December 1941 / Cecil Brown

Juke joint: Off duty in Phenix City, Alabama: December 1941 / Walter Bernstein

Unexpected couldn't happen: Pearl Harbor postmortem: January 1942 / Raymond Clapper

Newspaper reader finds it very difficult to get at the truth: Sugar-coating the war news: February 1942 / E.B. White

Everybody knew when the planes were coming: Corregidor: January-April 1942 / Clark Lee

Bataan nurses: Nurses under fire in the Philippines: April 1942 / Annalee Jacoby

Fever of defeat: Collapse of allied resistance in Burma: May 1942 / Jack Belden

Flight through the jungle: Stilwell's retreat through Burma: May 1942 / Jack Belden

Damn the torpedoes! Merchant marine and the battle of the Atlantic: 1942 / Helena Lawrenson

Battle of midway: Carrier war in the Pacific: June 4, 1942 / Foster Hailey

X, B, and chiefly A: Home front: rationing, 1942 / Brendan Gill

Concentration camp: U.S. style: Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942 / Ted Nakashima

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ghterhouse: Reports of genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942 / New York Times

Bond rally: Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942 / E.B. White

Battle of the ridge: Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942 / Richard Tregaskis

Battle of the river: Guadalcanal: October 7-9, 1942 / John Hersey

Battle for scoops: Foreign correspondents in Moscow: October 1942 / Walter Graebner

Negro looks at this war: African-Americans and the war: Argument for support, 1942 / J. Saunders Redding

Negroes are saying: African-Americans and the war: Discrimination and protest, 1942 / Roi Ottley

Horror beyond what imagination can grasp: Report of mass murder: December 1942 / Edward R. Murrow

Women in lifeboats: Torpedoed and rescued at sea: December 22, 1942 / Margaret Bourke-White

U.S. and Vichy in North Africa: Algeria: December 1942: Our policy is still appeasement

I gather new respect for Americans / Ernie Pyle

Girls of Elkton, Maryland: Munitions workers: 1943 / Mary Heaton Vorse

Foamy fields: Air war in Tunisia: January 1943 / A.J. Liebling

War in Tunisia: February-May 1943: Now it is killing that animates them

Moving at night in total blackness

Only slightly above the caveman stage

Too little to work with, as usual

Overrun before they knew what was happening

Nothing to do

What a tank battle looks like

Fantastic surge of caterpillar metal

Into the thick of battle

Brave men. Brave men!

Little boys again, lost in the dark

Greatest damage is psychological

God-damned infantry

When a unit stops to rest

This is our war / Ernie Pyle

Quest for Mollie: Uncovering a soldier's story: Tunisia and the U.S., spring-summer 1943 / A.J. Liebling

When American citizens murder U.S. soldiers: African-Americans and the war: Crimes against black G.I.'s, 1943 / George S. Schuyler

Japanese mind: Aftermath of the battle on Attu: June 1943 / Robert Sherrod

Sicilian campaign: July-August 1943: Dying man was left utterly alone

Damn sick of war-and deadly tired

Hell of a job

Miracle bridge / Ernie Pyle

This is democracy: American military administration in Sicily: August 1943 / John Hersey

I saw Regensburg destroyed: B-17 raid on Germany: August 17, 1943 / Beirne Lay, Jr.

Fear of death as green troops sail to invasion: Troop ship to Salerno: September 1943 / John Steinbeck

Three Americans: Photograph of American war dead: 1943 / Life Magazine

American radio traitors: Broadcasters for the axis: 1943 / William L. Shirer

So proudly we fail: American war movies: 1943 / James Agee

Morale sags at Camp Forrest as Jim Crow rules: African-Americans and the war: Southern army base, November 1943 / Deton J. Brooks

Patton struck soldier in hospital, was castigated by Eisenhower: Patton slapping case: August-November 1943 / Edward Kennedy

Then I got it: American correspondent wounded in Italy: November 1943 / Richard Tregaskis

From: Tarawa: Story of a battle: Marines at Tarawa: November 1943: I didn't know whether we had the heart to fight a war

View of the carnage

Hard facts of war / Robert Sherrod

Target was to be the big city: Bombing raid over Berlin: December 2, 1943 / Edward R. Murrow

Price of fire: Royal Air Force Burn Center: December 1943 / Martha Gellhorn

Italian campaign: Slow progress: December 1943-January 1944: Land and the weather are both against us

One demolished town after another

Mule packing outfit

This one is Captain Waskow / Ernie Pyle

San Pietro a village of the dead; Victory costs Americans dearly: Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943 / Homer Bigart

Over the lines: Spotting artillery from a piper cub: Italy, 1943 / Margaret Bourke-White

Christmas on New Guinea: African-American G.I.'s in the Southwest Pacific: December 1943 / Vincent Tubbs

Tired of winter tired of war: Occupied France: January-February 1944 / Gertrude Stein

I love mountain warfare: Italy: January 1944/ Walter Berns

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Vol. 2. Ernie Pyle: Italian campaign: Waiting for the next attack: February 1944: Those lulls that sometimes come in war

Night was full of distant warfare

Certain fundamental appreciation for the ridiculous

Trail was never straight

Vincent Tubbs: Wide awake on an island beachhead: Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944: No picturesque battle scenes in SWP War

Homesick Joe in Pacific

Men can't sleep; They talk, dream of home

Walter Bernstein: Search for a battle: Italy: March 1944

Ernie Pyle: Italian campaign: Perpetual astonishments of a war life: March 1944: Life of flying in combat

Their hunger most surely was genuine

Nobody is wholly safe

You just lie in your foxhole

Look I dread to see

Editors of Fortune-drawings by Mine Okubo: Issei, Nisei, Kibei: Japanese-American internment: 1944

Homer Bigart: Cassino, once thriving, is turned into a scene of unrelieved grimness: Ruins of Cassino: May 1944

Vincent Tubbs: Girl thrills New Caledonia G.I.'s: Southwest Pacific: USO show, May 1944

A.J. Liebling: Notes from the kidnap house: French underground journalism: 1944

Susan B. Anthony II: Working at the navy yard: Women in war plants: 1944

Vincent Tubbs: 93rd div. patrol kills 20 Japs, escapes 3 ambushes: Southwest Pacific: Jungle patrol, Bougainville, May 1944

I.F. Stone: For the Jews-Life or death?: Plea to admit Jewish refugees: June 1944

A.J. Liebling: Cross-channel trip: D-Day invasion: June 1-11, 1944

Ernie Pyle: Omaha Beach after D-Day: June 1944: Yet we got on

Wreckage was vast and startling

This long thin line of personal anguish

Martha Gellhorn: First hospital ship: Casualties of Normandy: June 1944

S.J. Perelman: Take two parts sand, one part girl, and stir: Wartime advertising: 1944

Robert Sherrod: Gone to earth: Saipan: June 1944

Robert Sherrod: Nature of the enemy: Saipan: July 1944

Lee Miller: U.S.A. tent hospital: Wounded in Normandy: July 1944

Ernie Pyle: Battle and breakout in Normandy: July-August 1944: They weren't heroic figures

Small assembly plant

Heavy ordnance company

Great attack

Ghastly relentlessness

Universe became filled with a gigantic rattling

Anybody makes mistakes

This weird hedgerow fighting

Each one is a separate little war

Nothing left behind but the remains

Wounded and trapped

Bill Davidson: Rommel-Count your men: Howitzer battalion at the siege of St. Malo: August 1944

Lee Miller: Siege of St. Malo: War wasn't over in this section: St. Malo, August 1944

Ernest Hemingway: How we came to Paris: On the road to Paris: August 1944

Irwin Shaw: Morts pour la Patrie: Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944

Helen Kirkpatrick: Daily News writer sees man slain at her side in hail of lead: Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944

W.H. Lawrence: Nazi mass killing laid bare in camp: Evidence of genocide at Maidanek: August 1944

Ernie Pyle: Last word: Summing up the war in France: August 1944

Bill Mauldin: Up front: My business is drawing: Cartoonist in combat, 1943-44

Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy? African-Americans and the war: Correspondence from Yank, 1944

Brendan Gill: Young man behind plexiglass: Profile of an American bombardier: August 1944

Martha Gellhorn: Gothic line: Last push: Northern Italy, September 1944

Tom Lea: Peleliu landing: War is fighting and fighting is killing: Peleliu, September 1944

Mack Morriss: My old outfit: Remembering "A" company: Maastricht, September 1944

William Walton: Now the Germans are the refugees: Fall of Aachen: October 1944

Peggy Hull Deuell: Death of carrier described: Sinking of the Princeton: October 1944

John H. Crider: U.S. board bares atrocity details told by witnesses at Polish camps: Eyewitness report of Auschwitz: November 1944

Mack Morriss: War in the Huertgen forest: Solid mass of dark, impenetrable green: Huertgen forest, November 1944

Eric Sevareid: Price we pay in Italy: Asse

ssing the Italian campaign: November 1944

Anne O'Hare McCormick: Italian ordeal surprises members of Congress: Assessing the Italian campaign: December 1944

Ed Cunningham: Battle of the bulge: Ardennes: December 1944-January 1945

Jack Belden: Retreat in Belgium: Ardennes: December 1944

Martha Gellhorn: Battle of the bulge: Road to Bastogne: December 1944

Carl Mydans: My God, It's Carl Mydans: Liberation of Santo Tomas Prison Camp: Manila, February 1945

John P. Marquand: Iwo Jima before H-hour: bombardment of Iwo Jima: February 1945

Robert Sherrod: First three days: Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945

Howard Brodie: Jump-off: Assault across the roer: February 1945

Richard C. Hottelet: Big jump into Germany: Airborne assault east of the Rhine: March 24, 1945

James Agee: These terrible records of war: Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945

Janet Flanner (Genet): Letter from Cologne: Model of destruction: Cologne, March 1945

Marguerite Higgins: Freed captives fill roads that lead to France: Displaced persons: Germany, April 1945

Martha Gellhorn: Das Deutsches volk: We were never Nazis: Germans in defeat, April 1945

James Agee: Soldier died today: Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945

Edward R. Murrow: For most of it I have no words: Buchenwald: April 15, 1945

Evan Wylie: Ernie Pyle: Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945

Janet Flanner (Genet): Letters from Paris: April 1945: Let us weep for this man: French mourn Roosevelt

Sad homecoming: Prisoners from Ravensbruck

Martha Gellhorn: Russians: Meeting at the Elbe: April 1945

Virginia Irwin: Giant whirlpool of destruction: Russians in Berlin: April 1945

Marguerite Higgins: 33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army: Liberation of Dachau: April 29, 1945

Martha Gellhorn: Dachau: Surely this war was made to abolish Dachau: May 1945

Edward Kennedy: War in Europe is ended! German surrender: May 7, 1945

A.J. Liebling: A.P. surrender: Press and the military: May 1945

Philip Hamburger: Letter from Rome: Italy at V-E Day: May 1945.