This is a list of war correspondents in World War II.
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- 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 (1904âÂÂ1971), 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.
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- Robert Capa, Collier's, then Life, Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist
- Dickey Chapelle, National Geographic, American photojournalist
- Greg Clarke (1892âÂÂ1977), 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
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- 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 (1900âÂÂ1969)
- Henry Tilton Gorrell, United Press
- Tom Grandin, CBS, an original member of the Murrow Boys
- Vasily Grossman, Krasnaya Zvezda, a Russian official newspaper
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- 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 1944âÂÂ1945)
- 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
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- 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".
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- Frederick C. Painton (1895âÂÂ1945), former pulp writer who covered WWII including North Africa and Italy (1943âÂÂ44), 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.
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- 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
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