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Cadet. Ely was born Dec. 17, 1897, in Salonika, Greece, son of a French civil servant. Fought as a foot soldier, then as a St. Cyr Military Academy cadet in World War I, winning the Croix de guerre with three citations. He was twice wounded. Graduated 2nd lieutenant from...
...joined the Resistance. Served as liaison officer between the French National London, crossing the channel on numerous occasions with information on German military movements; he landed on the Normandy beaches a few weeks before D-day and later joined the Allied army as a Maquis colonel. Won a second Croix de guerre, with two more citations for bravery, and suffered a third wound that cost him the use of his right...
Just before World War II Cogny was promoted to battery commander. In the early skirmishes of the war he won the Croix de guerre. But the German armored divisions rumbled smoothly through Belgium and swerved northeastward behind the Maginot Line. Among the 780,000 French prisoners was Captain René Cogny...
...Croix de Guerre. At war's end Capa's excellent war record helped him to become a U.S. citizen. With four other top photographers Capa formed Magnum Photos, a cooperative agency. Capa went to Russia with John Steinback (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), made two trips to cover the Israeli-Arab war. By choice Capa missed the Korean war. "I [am] very happy to be an unemployed war photographer," he once said, "and I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life." But a month ago, in Japan, Capa changed his mind. LIFE...
Twenty minutes later they found him, 75 yards up the road. He had been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...