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...longtime member of our Paris staff who had spent the last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage the Nazis had done-so Wert and Capa got a big room in the Hotel Scribe as temporary headquarters for themselves and the seven other correspondents on their way to Paris...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...
Author Charles Christian Wertenbaker, 44, is chief military correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Shrewd, affable, tweedy "Wert," a seasoned reporter and able writer whose previous books have ranged from Boojum (a college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...
...recovered from the wound he got at Salerno, is back in the thick of things with General Patton's men . . . and Chief Military Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, Photographer Bob Capa and Correspondent Bill Walton are at the new headquarters TIME has set up at the Hotel Scribe in Paris ("Wert" and Capa jeeped into the city right behind General Leclerc's armored car-believe they were the first Americans to were reach Paris...
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...