Reporting World War II Pt. 2 : American Journalism, 1944-46

by Library, Of America

• ISBN13: 9781883011055
• ISBN10: 1883011051
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

Featuring detailed coverage of the events taking place in Europe and the Pacific, as well as those on the homefront, Part Two of this reference features writings by Howard K. Smith, William L. Shirer, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward R. Murrow, and others. Bill Maudlin's Up Front and Hiroshima by John Hersey are included in their entirety. Chronology; photos; maps; notes; glossary. 190 cartoons.

Table of Contents

The Italian Campaign: ``Waiting for the Next Attack''
Ernie Pyle
February 1944
``Those Lulls That Sometimes Come in War''	1	(2)
``The Night Was Full of Distant Warfare''	3	(3)
``A Certain Fundamental Appreciation for the Ridiculous''	6	(2)
``The Trail Was Never Straight''	8	(3)
``Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead''
Vincent Tubbs
The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944
No Picturesque Battle Scenes in SWP War	11	(5)
Homesick Joe in Pacific	16	(1)
Men Can't Sleep; They Talk, Dream of Home	17	(4)
Search for a Battle
Walter Bernstein
Italy: March 1944	21	(14)
The Italian Campaign: ``Perpetual Astonishments of a War Life''
Ernie Pyle
March 1944
``A Life of Flying in Combat''	35	(2)
``Their Hunger Most Surely Was Genuine''	37	(2)
``Nobody Is Wholly Safe''	39	(2)
``You Just Lie in Your Foxhole''	41	(3)
``A Look I Dread To See''	44	(3)
The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei
Japanese-American Internment: 1944	47	(24)
Cassino, Once Thriving, Is Turned Into a Scene of Unrelieved Grimness
Homer Bigart
Ruins of Cassino: May 1944	71	(5)
Girl Thrills New Caledonia G.I.'s
Vincent Tubbs
The Southwest Pacific: USO Show, May 1944	76	(4)
Notes from the Kidnap House
A. J. Liebling
French Underground Journalism: 1944	80	(10)
Working at the Navy Yard
Susan B. Anthony II
Women in War Plants: 1944	90	(7)
93rd Div. Patrol Kills 20 Japs, Escapes 3 Ambushes
Vincent Tubbs
The Southwest Pacific: Jungle Patrol, Bougainville, May 1944	97	(4)
For the Jews-Life or Death?
I. F. Stone
A Plea to Admit Jewish Refugees: June 1944	101	(4)
Cross-Channel Trip
A. J. Liebling
The D-Day Invasion: June 1-11, 1944	105	(37)
Omaha Beach After D-Day
Ernie Pyle
June 1944
``And Yet We Got On''	142	(4)
``The Wreckage Was Vast and Startling''	146	(2)
``This Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish''	148	(3)
The First Hospital Ship
Martha Gellhorn
Casualties of Normandy: June 1944	151	(13)
Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl, and Stir
S. J. Perelman
Wartime Advertising: 1944	164	(6)
Gone to Earth
Robert Sherrod
Saipan: June 1944	170	(3)
The Nature of the Enemy
Robert Sherrod
Saipan: July 1944	173	(4)
U.S.A. Tent Hospital
Lee Miller
The Wounded in Normandy: July 1944	177	(17)
Battle and Breakout in Normandy
Ernie Pyle
July-August 1944
``They Weren't Heroic Figures''	194	(2)
``A Small Assembly Plant''	196	(3)
``The Heavy Ordance Company''	199	(2)
``The Great Attack''	201	(3)
``A Ghastly Relentlessness''	204	(2)
``The Universe Became Filled with a Gigantic Rattling''	206	(3)
``Anybody Makes Mistakes''	209	(2)
``This Weird Hedgerow Fighting''	211	(2)
``Each One Is a Separate Little War''	213	(3)
``Nothing Left Behind But the Remains''	216	(2)
``Wounded and Trapped''	218	(3)
``Rommel-Count Your Men''
Bill Davidson
Howitzer Battalion at the Siege of St. Malo: August 1944	221	(6)
The Siege of St. Malo
Lee Miller
``The War Wasn't Over in This Section'': St. Malo, August 1944	227	(15)
How We Came to Paris
Ernest Hemingway
On the Road to Paris: August 1944	242	(9)
Morts pour la Patrie
Irwin Shaw
The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944	251	(12)
Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at her Side in Hail of Lead
Helen Kirkpatrick
The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944	263	(4)
Nazi Mass Killing Laid Bare in Camp
W. H. Lawrence
Evidence of Genocide at Maidanek: August 1944	267	(6)
A Last Word
Ernie Pyle
Summing Up the War in France: August 1944	273	(3)
Up Front
Bill Mauldin
``My Business Is Drawing'': A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44	276	(194)
Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy?
African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944	470	(4)
Young Man Behind Plexiglass
Brendan Gill
Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944	474	(16)
The Gothic Line
Martha Gellhorn
``The Last Push'': Northern Italy, September 1944	490	(8)
Peleliu Landing
Tom Lea
``War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing'': Peleliu, September 1944	498	(38)
My Old Outfit
Mack Morriss
Remembering ``A'' Company: Maastricht, September 1944	536	(9)
Now the Germans Are the Refugees
William Walton
The Fall of Aachen: October 1944	545	(3)
Death of Carrier Described
Peggy Hull Deuell
The Sinking of the Princeton: October 1944	548	(5)
U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps
John H. Crider
Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944	553	(7)
War in the Huertgen Forest
Mack Morriss
``A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green'': The Huertgen Forest, November 1944	560	(6)
The Price We Pay in Italy
Eric Sevareid
Assessing the Italian Campagin: November 1944	566	(5)
The Italian Ordeal Surprises Members of Congress
Anne O'Hare McCormick
Assessing the Italian Campaign: December 1944	571	(3)
The Battle of the Bulge
Ed Cunningham
The Ardennes: December 1944-January 1945	574	(22)
Retreat in Belgium
Jack Belden
The Ardennes: December 1944	596	(3)
The Battle of the Bulge
Martha Gellhorn
The Road to Bastogne: December 1944	599	(8)
``My God! It's Carl Mydans''
Carl Mydans
Liberation of Santo Tomas Prison Camp: Manila, February 1945	607	(12)
Iwo Jima Before H-Hour
John P. Marquand
Bombardment of Iwo Jima: February 1945	619	(15)
The First Three Days
Robert Sherrod
Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945	634	(5)
Jump-Off
Howard Brodie
Assault Across the Roer: February 1945	639	(10)
Big Jump into Germany
Richard C. Hottelet
Airborne Assault East of the Rhine: March 24, 1945	649	(11)
``These Terrible Records of War''
James Agee
Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945	660	(2)
Letter from Cologne
Janet Flanner (Genet)
``A Model of Destruction'': Cologne, March 1945	662	(7)
Freed Captives Fill Roads That Lead to France
Marguerite Higgins
Displaced Persons: Germany, April 1945	669	(2)
Das Deutsches Volk
Martha Gellhorn
``We Were Never Nazis'': Germans in Defeat, April 1945	671	(8)
``A Soldier Died Today''
James Agee
The Death of F:D.R.: April 12, 1945	679	(2)
``For Most of It I Have No Words''
Edward R. Murrow
Buchenwald: April 15, 1945	681	(5)
Ernie Pyle
Evan Wylie
The Death of Ernic Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945	686	(3)
Letters from Paris
Janet Flanner (Genet)
April 1945
``Let Us Weep For This Man'': The French Mourn Roosevelt	689	(4)
``A Sad Homecoming'': Prisoners from Ravensbruck	693	(7)
The Russians
Martha Gellhorn
Meeting at the Elbe: April 1945	700	(9)
``A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction''
Virginia Irwin
The Russians in Berlin: April 1945	709	(11)
33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army
Marguerite Higgins
Liberation of Dachau: April 29, 1945	720	(4)
Dachau
Martha Gellhorn
``Surely This War Was Made to Abolish Dachau'': May 1945	724	(7)
The War in Europe Is Ended!
Edward Kennedy
The German Surrender: May 7, 1945	731	(2)
The A.P. Surrender
A. J. Liebling
The Press and the Military: May 1945	733	(10)
Letter from Rome
Philip Hamburger
Italy at V-E Day: May 1945	743	(6)
Beautiful Upon a Hill
E. B. White
The United Nations Conference: San Franciso, May 1945	749	(5)
Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill
Phelps Adams
Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945	754	(7)
Guam Holdouts Give Up
Shelley Mydans
Japanese Soldiers Surrender: Spring 1945	761	(2)
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member
William L. Laurence
``A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire'': Nagasaki, August 9, 1945	763	(10)
Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended
Homer Bigart
The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945	773	(2)
A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It
Homer Bigart
A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945	775	(6)
Hiroshima
John Hersey
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946	781	(78)
Chronology, 1933-1945	859	(36)
Maps	895	(17)
Biographical Notes	912	(15)
Note on the Texts	927	(4)
Acknowledgments	931	(3)
Notes	934	(17)
Glossary of Military Terms	951	(8)
Index	959