Word: capa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsreaders who are beginning to feel that one war correspondent's story is very like another-especially those of the war in France-were offered an explanation last week by LIFE'S famed War Photographer Robert Capa. Said...
Maybe you read Ernie Pyle's story in your newspaper about how he and Wert and Capa went along with an infantry company assigned to clean up a Nazi pocket: "A young lieutenant came up and said; 'Want to go along?" I certainly didn't but when you are invited, what can you do? So I said, 'Sure.' And so did Wertenbaker and Capa. Wert never seems nervous and Capa is notorious for his daring. Fine company for me to be keeping...
Said LIFE'S Robert Capa, in German: "And I am bored with photographing defeated generals...
...Your invasion team is all present or accounted for. Walton and Capa are with me, Landry is down the road. Scherschel is somewhere on the beach and Ragsdale, I hope, is on the way back to London. Byron Thomas and Bohrod are also said to be beachcombing somewhere. Reports from the second batch of correspondents arriving yesterday are that Belden and White are still held up in England...
...Walton, who landed with the paratroopers, is with the 82nd Airborne, which is probably the best spot here, and will stick with them. I will try to keep you covered on overall American action and am now proceeding with Capa for a closer look at the currently most active sector...