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Article: Reporting World War II: 1938-1946, 2 vols.
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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I cover New England--a region that has not seen war for 220 years--for The Washington Post. It is a far cry from Margaret Bourke-White's adventures spotting artillery from a Piper Cub over Italy, or Emie Pyle's description of "the fantastic surge of caterpillar metal" in a tank battle in Northem Africa, or Homer Bigart's peerless account of the Battle of San Pietro, in which he wrote:
Outstanding among Frazior's men was Lieutenant Rufus J. Cleghorn, of Waco, Tex., a barrelchested football player from Baylor University. Exulting in battle, Cleghorn clambered to the highest rock of Samurco's pinnacle and howled insults at the Germans, pausing now and then to toss ...