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Richard Tregaskis » Best known for his book Guadalcanal Diary which he wrote after spending six weeks with the U.S. Marines during and after the landing on Guadalcanal in 1942. Tregaskis would continue on to write Vietnam Diary after spending time with the U.S. Marines in Vietnam. In all, he wrote thirteen books from 1943 to 1975 on the subjects of military history and U.S. politics.

Robert Sherrod at right Robert Sherrod » Sherrod was best known for his years of writing and editing for TIME and LIFE magazines during WWII. He accompanied the US Marines at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tarawa and Attu. Sherrod authored books on Tarawa , Saipan and Iwo Jima, and five total on World War II. He would later go on to cover the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Ernie Pyle » was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during WWII. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a following in some 300 newspapers.

Bill Mauldin » A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States, he was most famous for his WWII cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. These cartoons were published and distributed in Stars and Stripes.

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Ed Reep, Combat Artist

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Ed Reep was a U.S. Army soldier and combat artist during the war. He served in North Africa and the Italian Campaign. You can read about his amazing story in his autobiography entitled, "A Combat…Continue

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Comment by Julia Kennedy Cochran on January 6, 2010 at 11:59am: My father, Edward Kennedy, was probably the most famous--or infamous--journalist at the end of WWII because of his reporting of the German surrender. After allowing 17 journalists, including my father, to witness the surrender, Eisenhower's staff decided to embargo the news because Stalin planned his own surrender ceremony in Berlin two days later. My father discovered that the Germans had released the news to their own troops and begged the censors to lift the embargo. They refused. He released the news, scooping the other journalists and incurring the wrath of Eisenhower. He was disaccredited, sent back to the U.S. and eventually fired (after 10 years as a war correspondent, ending up as head of the AP's Western Front operations). About a year later, he was able to prove that the Allies had permitted the Germans to report the surrender and got his credentials back. His case is taught in many journalism classes as a story of freedom of the press sullied by overbearing censorship. I am currently trying to find a publisher for his war memoirs, which I have turned into a biography.

Comment by Scott Lyons on January 6, 2010 at 12:03pm: Wow, that is a fantastic story Julia. The censorship back then was extraordinary as you say.
I hope you are able to secure a publisher for the biography ... I would buy it.

Comment by Randy Gann on January 6, 2010 at 1:44pm: I agree, would love to read it.

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Dr. Guy LoFaro Lectures on the 82nd Airborne Division's Contribution during WWII

By SCOTT LYONS
28 January 2012

Historian and author Guy LoFaro, retired US Army officer, and former West Point professor and alumnus, recently spoke of the research behind his 2011 book The Sword of St. Michael: The 82nd Airborne Division in World War II at the North Atlanta-area independent bookseller ‘Acworth Bookstore’. Full Story »

"With the Old Breed" Conversations of Wartime with a WWII-era US Marine

By SCOTT LYONS
21 January 2012

I had the recent privilege of learning World War II history first-hand from Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul Bailey, through in-person interviews. Paul was a U.S. Marine from 1943 to 1946, who fought in the same division, 1st Marine Division (3/7), on Okinawa as Eugene Sledge (3/5), author of With the Old Breed and subject of HBO’s ‘The Pacific’. Full story »