Reporting World War II : American Journalism, 1938-1946

by Hynes, Samual

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9781931082051

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1931082057

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5/1/2001

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Includes the work of nearly ninety writers, including Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, A.J. Liebling, and Edward R. Murrow, capturing the urgency of events as they happened.

Preface

Stephen E. Ambrose

Introduction

xix

Samuel Hynes

``It's All Over''

William L. Shirer

The Munich Conference: September 1938

(3)

Aufenthalt in Rosenheim

Vincent Sheean

Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938

(5)

Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans

Otto D. Tolischus

The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939

(5)

Paris Postscript

A. J. Liebling

Paris Before the Fall: May 1940

(11)

The Beginning of the End

Virginia Cowles

Flight from Paris: June 1940

(10)

``Revengeful, Triumphant Hate''

William L. Shirer

French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940

(5)

Can They Take It?

Edward R. Murrow

The London Blitz: September 1940

(5)

``This Dreadful Masterpiece''

Ernie Pyle

London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940

(3)

Under Fire

Robert St. John

German Invasion of Greece: April 1941

(15)

The Way of Subjects

Otto D. Tolischus

Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941

(6)

Valhalla in Transition

Howard K. Smith

Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941

(25)

``The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years''

Robert Hagy

America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941

(5)

New York Herald Tribune: President's War Message

America Declares War: December 8, 1941

(2)

War Hits Manila

Melville Jacoby

Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941

101

(8)

``Prepare to Abandon Ship''

Cecil Brown

The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941

109

(6)

``Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow''

Larry Lesueur

Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941

115

(14)

Bataan Nurses

Annalee Jacoby

Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942

129

(4)

Flight Through the Jungle

Jack Belden

Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942

133

(13)

``Damn the Torpedoes!''

Helen Lawrenson

The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942

146

(7)

The Battle of Midway

Foster Hailey

Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942

153

(8)

Concentration Camp: U.S. Style

Ted Nakashima

The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942

161

(3)

The New York Times: ``A Vast Slaughterhouse''

Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942

164

(4)

Bond Rally

E. B. White

Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942

168

(6)

Battle of the Ridge

Richard Tregaskis

Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942

174

(37)

Negroes Are Saying

Roi Ottley

African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942

211

(19)

The Girls of Elkton, Maryland

Mary Heaton Vorse

Munitions Workers: 1943

230

(15)

The Foamy Fields

A. J. Liebling

Air War in Tunisia: January 1943

245

(43)

The War in Tunisia

Ernie Pyle

February-May 1943

288

(18)

I Saw Regensburg Destroyed

Beirne Lay, Jr.

B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943

306

(13)

Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion

John Steinbeck

Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943

319

(3)

``Then I Got It''

Richard Tregaskis

American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943

322

(11)

from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle

Robert Sherrod

The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943

333

(30)

``The Target Was To Be the Big City''

Edward R. Murrow

Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943

363

(8)

San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Cost Americans Dearly

Homer Bigart

Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943

371

(8)

Over the Lines

Margaret Bourke-White

Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943

379

(15)

``This One Is Captain Waskow''

Ernie Pyle

The Death of an Infantry Officer: Italy, January 1944

394

(3)

``Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead''

Vincent Tubbs

The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944

397

(10)

Search for a Battle

Walter Bernstein

Italy: March 1944

407

(14)

The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei

Japanese-American Internment: 1944

421

(24)

Working at the Navy Yard

Susan B. Anthony II

Women in War Plants: 1944

445

(7)

Omaha Beach After D-Day

Ernie Pyle

June 1944

452

(9)

Battle and Breakout in Normandy

Ernie Pyle

July-August 1944

461

(10)

The Siege of St. Malo

Lee Miller

``The War Wasn't Over in This Section'': St. Malo, August 1944

471

(15)

Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead

Helen Kirkpatrick

The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944

486

(4)

from Up Front

Bill Mauldin

``My Business Is Drawing'': A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44

490

(19)

Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy?

African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944

509

(4)

Young Man Behind Plexiglass

Brendan Gill

Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944

513

(16)

Peleliu Landing

Tom Lea

``War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing'': Peleliu, September 1944

529

(38)

Now the Germans Are the Refugees

William Walton

The Fall of Aachen: October 1944

567

(3)

U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps

John H. Crider

Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944

570

(7)

War in the Huertgen Forest

Mack Morriss

``A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green'': The Huertgen Forest, November 1944

577

(6)

The Battle of the Bulge

Martha Gellhorn

The Road to Bastogne: December 1944

583

(8)

The First Three Days

Robert Sherrod

Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945

591

(5)

Jump-Off

Howard Brodie

Assault Across the Roer: February 1945

596

(10)

``These Terrible Records of War''

James Agee

Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945

606

(2)

Letter from Cologne

Janet Flanner (Genet)

``A Model of Destruction'': Cologne, March 1945

608

(7)

Das Deutsches Volk

Martha Gellhorn

``We Were Never Nazis'': Germans in Defeat, April 1945

615

(8)

``A Soldier Died Today''

James Agee

The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945

623

(2)

``For Most of It I Have No Words''

Edward R. Murrow

Buchenwald: April 15, 1945

625

(5)

Ernie Pyle

Evan Wylie

The Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945

630

(3)

``A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction''

Virginia Irwin

The Russians in Berlin: April 1945

633

(11)

The War in Europe Is Ended!

Edward Kennedy

The German Surrender: May 7, 1945

644

(2)

The A.P. Surrender

A. J. Liebling

The Press and the Military: May 1945

646

(10)

Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill

Phelps Adams

Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945

656

(7)

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member

William L. Laurence

``A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire'': Nagasaki, August 9, 1945

663

(10)

Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended

Homer Bigart

The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945

673

(2)

A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It

Homer Bigart

A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945

675

(6)

Hiroshima

John Hersey

The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946

681

(78)

Chronology, 1933-1945

759

(36)

Maps

795

(17)

Biographical Notes

812

(16)

Note on the Texts

828

(4)

Acknowledgments

832

(3)

Notes

835

(19)

Glossary of Military Terms

854

(9)

Index

863

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