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A. Homer Byington

Byington gained a reputation as a war correspondent when he became the first to deliver news of the outcomes of the battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg.

Breyten Breytenbach

He is the brother of Jan Breytenbach, founder of the South African Special Forces, and Cloete Breytenbach, a widely published war correspondent.

C.B. Colby

In 1943 he became aviation editor of Popular Science magazine and became a war correspondent with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Alaska.

Canudos

The story of Canudos was told by war correspondent Euclides da Cunha in the book Os Sertões (1901; translated into English as Rebellion in the Backlands, 1944) and also, in fictional form, in the novel The War of the End of the World by Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa (1981) and described at length by Peter Robb in "A Death in Brazil" (2004).

George Dupre

In 1953 Quentin Reynolds, an ex-war correspondent, had written a book The Man Who Wouldn't Talk about George Dupre's alleged wartime experiences.

Georgy Orbeliani

War correspondent Francis McCullagh commented on the diverse ethnic backgrounds of Oebeliani's Brigade in his book With the Cossacks, but also mentioned that most of his men could not communicate well with other units due to their lack of ability in the Russian language.

Havank

During World War II Havank worked as an editor and occasionally as a war correspondent for the London edition of the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland.

Henry Timrod

After the bloody Battle of Shiloh, he tried again to live the camp life as a western war correspondent for the Charleston Mercury, but this too was short lived as he was not strong enough for the rugged task.

Jim Guy Tucker

In early 1965, Tucker found passage to southeast Asia by tramp steamer from San Francisco and entered South Vietnam as an accredited freelance war correspondent.

Kenneth S. Davis

During his varied career, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters during World War II, a member of the UNESCO Relations Staff of the Sate Department, and a professor of history at both Kansas State and the University of Kansas.

Natasha's Story

Natasha's Story is a 1994 book by war correspondent Michael Nicholson and is based on his work for the British news broadcaster, ITN.

Robert Low

Low was war correspondent in Vietnam and also several other locations, including Sarajevo, Romania and Kosovo, until "common-sense, age and the concerns of my wife and daughter prevailed".

Selling Hitler

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler.

SS Commodore

The event was immortalized when passenger and author Stephen Crane, who was traveling as a war correspondent for the Bacheller-Johnson syndicate, wrote the classic short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

He served with the American Advisory Commission to the Polish Government from 1920 to 1921 and had also acted as war correspondent with Floyd Gibbons in Poland, 1919-1921.

William Howard Russell

Sir William Howard Russell CVO (28 March 1820 – 11 February 1907) was born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. He was a British-Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.


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American Airlines Flight 6780

Also on board were former war correspondent John F. Chester and US Civil Aeronautics Administration officials George T. Williams and John D. Rice, both engaged in the development of airport radar systems and navigational aids.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Blundy

David Blundy (1945–1989), British journalist and war correspondent

Carlton, County Durham

It was here that Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm before leaving for France as a war correspondent in 1945.

Cedarcroft

"From 1859 to 1874, this was the residence of Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), poet, novelist, and Civil War correspondent. Taylor did much of his writing in this house," which he had built for his use.

Damien Parer

Together with war correspondent Osmar White, he undertook an arduous journey by schooner, launch and then on foot from Port Moresby to Wau via Yule Island, Terapo and Kudjiru, in order to document the efforts of the meager forces then fighting on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.

Denis Johnston

During the Second World War he served as a BBC war correspondent, reporting from El Alamein to Buchenwald.

Donald Alaster Macdonald

Macdonald was first Australian war correspondent at the South African War; during the war he was besieged at Ladysmith.

Dora Alonso

One of her most famous books, The Year 1961, which chronicled her experiences during the Bay of Pigs invasion as a war correspondent at Playa Girón, Cuba, won the Casa de las Américas Award.

Fumio Niwa

Niwa's work was controversial and during World War II a couple of his novels were banned for immorality; he worked as a war correspondent in China and New Guinea; he accompanied Rear Admiral Gunichi Mikawa's Eighth Fleet and was on board the flagship Chōkai during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.

Gerold Frank

During World War II, he worked as a war correspondent in the Middle East, and he collaborated with Bartley Crum in the work Behind the Silken Curtain, an account of the work of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine.

Herbert Southworth

He also took a master's degree at Columbia University, and formed an enduring friendship with the war correspondent Jay Allen.

International Editor of the Year Award

1994 Indro Montanelli, founder of La Voce and Il Giornale, journalist for Il Corriere della Sera and other newspapers, war correspondent during the 1930s and the 1940s

James Lucas

Jim G. Lucas (1914–1970), war correspondent for Scripps-Howard Newspapers

Jannik Lindbæk

His aunt was journalist and war correspondent Lise Lindbæk, and he was a great-grandson of Elise Aubert In December 1963 he married teacher Grete Schjøttelvig.

Jean Hood

In 2010, Hood was commissioned to write the accompanying book to a major new exhibition on the war correspondent to be held at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, beginning the end of May 2011.

John Randolph Pepper

John R. Pepper was born in Rome, Italy in 1958 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Pepper.

Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 to Curtis Bill Pepper, a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine, and the sculptor Beverly Stoll Pepper.

José-María Siles, Sr

As a war correspondent he witnessed since 1992 the dramatic siege of Sarajevo and the reunification of the city after the Dayton Agreement.

Joseph Moutschen

His brother Michel Moutschen (1923-1947 in Hanoi) was a war correspondent for the Associated Press.

Krige

Uys Krige (1910–1987), South African writer, poet, playwright, translator, rugby player, war correspondent and romantic

Lafayette Young

He again became a war correspondent, travelling to southeastern Europe in 1913 to cover the Second Balkan War.

Little Boy Lost

Based on the novel Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski, the film is about a war correspondent stationed in Paris during World War II and once married to a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis.

Luís Miguel Loureiro

His main assignments to date as a national TV senior reporter were being a war correspondent in Beirut and Tyre (Lebanon) during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, special reporting from Phuket and Khao Lak areas on the effects and recovery process from the 2004 asian tsunami catastrophe in Thailand and an in-depth report on the living conditions of a far-North cod fishing community, the town of Batsfjord, in the Finnmark region of Norway.

Mia Elliott

Mia was the Amerasian daughter of the late War correspondent and Korean War veteran, Mark Elliott and Eurasian doctor, Dr. Han Suyin.

Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora

Leaving behind his career as a corporate lawyer in Spain, Miguel became a freelance war correspondent in Sarajevo and later in Kosovo, where he was one of the few Western cameraman to stay in Pristina during the Nato air campaign.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), World War I veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII war correspondent

The cemetery opened to the public on July 19, 1949, with services for five war dead: an unknown serviceman, two Marines, an Army lieutenant and one noted civilian war correspondent Ernie Pyle.

News Chronicle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – war correspondent for the Daily Chronicle during World War I

Peter Wollen

Wollen's only solo feature, Friendship's Death (1987), starring Bill Paterson and Tilda Swinton, is the story of the relationship between a British war correspondent and a female extraterrestrial robot on a peace mission to Earth, who, missing her intended destination of MIT, inadvertently lands in Amman, Jordan during the events of Black September 1970.

Sean Ramsay

Excelling as a war correspondent, he worked in many hot spots during times of war including Tiananmen Square, Afghanistan, Chechny, Iraq.

Siege of Ladysmith

While Buller made repeated attempts to fight his way across the Tugela, the defenders of Ladysmith suffered increasingly from shortage of food and other supplies, and from disease, mainly enteric fever or typhoid, which claimed among many others, the life of noted war correspondent G.W. Steevens.

George Warrington Steevens, British author and war correspondent, of enteric fever.

Solomon Stanwood Menken

He married a wealthy New York City socialite; they had one son, Arthur Menken, who became a successful newsreel cameraman for Paramount Pictures and a war correspondent who would later film the Nanking Massacre and the Spanish Civil War).

SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers

As an Abteilung, the unit had several more war-correspondent units attached to it, enabling it to cover the actions of all the Waffen-SS formations in the field.

The honorary title Kurt Eggers referred to the SS war-correspondent and editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps who had been killed earlier in the year, while reporting on the Wiking's battles near Kharkov.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.

The Valiant Years

Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis.

The Ypres League

An account of the horror of the conditions on the Ypres Salient, written by the war correspondent Philip Gibbs, was used for the League's information leaflets.

Vladik Dzhabarov

He joined the Soviet Army to fight in the Invasion of Afghanistan for two years, where he continued to keep up a relationship with his trainer, and was introduced to war correspondent Artyom Borovik.

Vyazma

American war correspondent Quentin Reynolds visited Vyazma shortly after the German retreat and gave an account of the destruction of the city in his book The Curtain Rises, in which he stated that its population was reduced from 60,000 to 716, with only three buildings remaining.

William Boot

Barring the question of age, a more appropriate model for Boot may be William Beach Thomas who, according to Peter Stothard, "was a quietly successful countryside columnist and literary gent who became a calamitous Daily Mail war correspondent" in World War I.

William Howard Russell

Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent"—though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports.