Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs had already offered to surrender when the New York Herald Tribune's solemn, bespectacled Homer Bigart last week climbed into a Japan-bound B29. He wanted to see how the flyers felt on such a mission...
...When Bigart stepped out of the B-29 after a 15-hour flight, he was in a world at peace. From Guam he filed what may have been the last eyewitnesser...
Second Wave. War Correspondent Bigart was almost a prptotype of the second wave of newsmen to cover World War II. The first wave, of big-name glamour boys, mostly wound up as radio experts- or dashed into a war zone to get enough material for a quick book and lecture tour. The second wave were real war babies...
Professorial-looking Bigart, who talks with a slight stammer, joined the Herald Tribune in 1929 as an office boy, in 1933 began writing church news, finally worked up to fires and murders. In early 1943, when papers began converting young police reporters into war correspondents, Bigart was sent to England...
...Bigart was with the Seventh Army in Sicily, saw the Fifth Army liberate Rome, and watched MacArthur land in the Philippines. He was in action at Leyte, and invaded Okinawa with the Tenth Army. Other correspondents learned to respect him as a reporter who was "trying to build his reputation at the cannon's mouth." His dispatches appeared in only one paper, so his by-line was not as well known as many; but he was one of the war's best reporters...