List of war correspondents in World War II

This is a list of war correspondents in World War II.

A

• James Aldridge, The New York Times

B

• Ralph Barnes, New York Herald Tribune, killed in a plane crash in Yugoslavia in 1940 while on his way to cover Mussolini's invasion of Greece
• Jack Belden, LIFE
• Homer Bigart, New York Herald Tribune
• Bill Boss, The Canadian Press
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), first American female war photojournalist, photographed Buchenwald concentration camp
• Hal Boyle, Associated Press
• Cecil Brown, CBS
• Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Sonderführer in a propaganda unit of the Kriegsmarine
• Christopher Buckley, The Daily Telegraph
• Wilfred Burchett, Australian war correspondent, first Western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the atomic bombing
• Winston Burdett, CBS Radio Network, one of the Murrow Boys
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, who was in Honolulu at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Became one of the oldest war correspondents ever.

C

• Robert Capa, Collier's, then Life, Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist
• Dickey Chapelle, National Geographic, American photojournalist
• Greg Clarke (1892–1977), Canadian war correspondent
• Alexander Clifford, Daily Mail
• Charles Collingwood, CBS Radio Network, one of the Murrow Boys
• Don Cook, New York Herald Tribune (1920-1995), War correspondent
• Walter Cronkite, United Press

D

• Daniel De Luce, Associated Press
• Richard Dimbleby, the BBC's first war correspondent
• David Divine, The Sunday Times
• Bill Downs, CBS News
• David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist and combat photographer

E

• Kurt Eggers, World War II SS correspondent, editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps, killed while reporting on the battles near Kharkov

G

• Martha Gellhorn, Collier's, third wife of fellow war correspondent and writer Ernest Hemingway
• Frank Gervasi, Collier's Weekly
• Frank Gillard, BBC
• Nakayama Gishu, pen name of Japanese war correspondent Yoshihide Takama (1900–1969)
• Henry Tilton Gorrell, United Press
• Tom Grandin, CBS, an original member of the Murrow Boys
• Vasily Grossman, Krasnaya Zvezda, a Russian official newspaper

H

• Matthew Halton, Toronto Star, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Vernon Arnold Haugland, Associated Press. First civilian awarded the Silver Star.
• Thomas Healy, Daily Mirror (North African campaign), New York Post (Anzio and subsequent Italian campaign 1944–1945)
• Macdonald Hastings, Picture Post
• Ernest Hemingway, Colliers
• Frank Hewlett, United Press
• Marguerite Higgins, New York Herald Tribune
• Clare Hollingworth, The Daily Telegraph
• Johannes-Matthias Hönscheid, German correspondent who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Richard C. Hottelet, United Press, later CBS. Last surviving member of the Murrow Boys.
• Peggy Hull

J

• Alaric Jacob, Daily Express
• Denis Johnston, BBC
• Philip Jordan, News Chronicle

K

• Clair Kenamore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Ed Kennedy, Associated Press
• Helen Kirkpatrick, Chicago Daily News
• Betty Knox, London Evening Standard

L

• Thomas C. Lea III, Life magazine
• Larry LeSueur, CBS radio correspondent. One of the "Murrow Boys".
• Eric Lloyd Williams, South African Press Association and Reuters
• Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers

M

• Alexander Gault MacGowan, The Sun (New York)
• John MacVane, NBC
• Curzio Malaparte, Corriere della Sera, Italian war correspondent
• Jim McGlincy, United Press
• John MacVane, NBC News
• Drew Middleton, The New York Times
• Alan Moorehead, Daily Express
• Ralph Morse, career staff photographer for Life magazine, noted for his photo of a burnt-out Japanese tank in a clearing with a skull and helmet on the fender
• Joseph Morton, Associated Press, only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis during World War II
• Leonard Mosley, Allied Newspapers
• Edward R. Murrow, CBS News. Assembled a team of foreign correspondents for CBS News who became known as the "Murrow Boys".

N

• Ruth Cowan Nash, Associated Press

O

• Sidney A. Olson, Time & Life

P

• Frederick C. Painton (1895–1945), former pulp writer who covered WWII including North Africa and Italy (1943–44), and Iwo Jima (1945). He was the subject of Ernie Pyle's last published column.
• Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, CBS Radio Network, first female member of Murrow's Boys
• George Sessions Perry, Harper's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post
• William Pidgeon, The Australian Women's Weekly
• Roy Pinney, freelance war photographer who sold to Life, Look, Colliers, Woman's Day and other magazines
• Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Pyle was killed by a machine-gun burst on the island of Iejima in April 1945.

R

• Quentin Reynolds, Collier's Weekly
• John Rich, NBC News
• Inez Robb, International News Service
• Andy Rooney, Stars and Stripes

S

• Frederic Salusbury, Daily Herald
• Sigrid Schultz, Chicago Tribune
• Eric Sevareid, CBS Radio Network, one of the original Murrow Boys
• Robert Sherrod, Time and Life magazines
• Bill Shadel, CBS Radio Network
• Charles Shaw, CBS
• Robert Sherrod, Time and Life magazines
• William L. Shirer, CBS Radio, one of the "Murrow Boys", and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
• Howard K. Smith, CBS Radio, one of the original Murrow Boys
• Donald Starr, Chicago Tribune
• John Steinbeck, New York Herald Tribune
• Edmund Stevens, Christian Science Monitor

T

• Richard Tregaskis, International News Service. Author of Guadalcanal Diary, which was dramatized in the movie of same name.

V

• Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, BBC

W

• Betty Wason, CBS
• Alan Whicker, British Army's Film and Photo Unit
• Osmar White, The Herald and Weekly Times
• Don Whitehead, Associated Press
• Eric Lloyd Williams, Reuters/South African Press Association
• Chester Wilmot, BBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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