Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five newsmen went along on an R.A.F. raid over Berlin last week; only two came back. "Missing in action": 1) slim, 23-year-old Lowell Bennett of the International News Service, who was to write an eyewitness account of the raid for all three U.S. press associations, and who got...
Last week the new policy began to pay off. Reporters' eyewitness dispatches of the Gilberts offensive reached U.S. readers with only three-day delays. And for the first time names of units and commanders were promptly given.
When the Sun Rises. In Germany, the facts were beyond concealment. Said an eyewitness report from the Eastern Front in the Berliner Lokalanzeiger:
U.S. flyers in Britain related grim eyewitness accounts of the latest Nazi "secret weapon," the plane-fired rocket. During Oct. 14th's Fortress smash at the Schweinfurt ball-bearing works, Nazi fighters, armed with the new projectiles, soared to the attack in "layers" of 60 planes each. Said Colonel...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads."