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Will Lang spent many censored and newsless weeks with General Mark Clark's hidden Fifth Army in Africa waiting for it to jump off on the invasion. At the last minute he gave his place in the attack to Jack Belden-then rushed to the front with a reserve regiment after Belden was wounded during the first landings at Salerno...
...Jack Belden, war correspondent for TIME and LIFE, was wounded at Salerno (see p. 15). This, his last dispatch for many months, was written in sick bay aboard ship leaving Italy...
From the sick bay of a ship off Salerno, TIME Correspondent Jack Belden (see p. 28) last week reported a colloquy with a wounded American soldier...
Quiet Jack Belden went to China in 1931 and has been a war correspondent since 1937 (for U.P., I.N.S., TIME & LIFE). He marched with the Chinese armies, flew with the Americans, retreated from Burma with General Stilwell, marched from Egypt with the Eighth Army into Tunisia, landed in Sicily with the U.S. First Infantry Division...
This week intrepid Jack Belden was forced to take a rest: at Salerno he was wounded...