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Authors: Timothy M. Gay
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Jeffers, H. Paul.
Command of Honor
. New York: New American Library, 2008.
——.
Onward We Charge: The Heroic Story of Darby’s Rangers in World War II
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——.
Taking Command: General J. Lawton Collins from Guadalcanal to Utah Beach and Victory in Europe.
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——.
The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War II
. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
——.
The Second World War
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Knightley, Phillip.
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The Associated Press News Annual: 1945 (Volume I)
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Liebling, A. J.
The Republic of Silence
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Manchester, William.
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McIntyre, Ben.
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Miller, Donald L.
Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
—— (original text by Henry Steele Commager).
The Story of World War II
. New York: Touchstone, 2011.
Nichols, David, ed.
Ernie’s War: The Best of Ernie Pyle’s War Dispatches
. New York: Random House, 1986.
Oldfield, Col. Barney.
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. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1956.
Pogue, Forrest C.
Diaries of a World War II Combat Historian
. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
——.
George Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939–1942
. New York: Viking, 1996.
Pulwers, Jack E.
The Press of Battle: The G.I. Reporter and the American People
. New York: Ivyhouse Books, 2003.
Remnick, David, ed.
Just Enough Liebling.
New York: North Point Press, 2004.
Romeiser, John B., ed.
Beachhead Don: Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942–1945
. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004.
Rooney, Andrew A.
The Fortunes of War
. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962.
Rooney, Andy.
My War.
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Ryan, Cornelius.
A Bridge Too Far
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
——.
The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Salisbury, Harrison E.
A Journey for Our Times
. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1983.
Sevareid, Eric.
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Sokolov, Raymond.
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. New York: Harper & Row Publishing, 1980.
Steinbeck, John.
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Tobin, James.
Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
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Reporting the War: The Journalistic Coverage of World War II
. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, 1994.
Wade, Betsy, comp. and ed.
Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of Homer Bigart
. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns.
The War: An Intimate History
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Wiant, Susan. E.
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. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.
Willis, Clint, ed.
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Wouk, Herman
. Inside, Outside
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Magazines, Journals, Specialty Publications, and Web Sites
The AP World
(Associated Press members newsletter)
The AP Inter-Office
(Associated Press members newsletter)
Atlantic Monthly
The Blue Pencil
(Los Angeles journalism newsletter)
Collier’s
Columbia Journalism Review
Commonweal
Editor & Publisher
Harper’s
Holiday
Life
Literary Digest
Look
McCall’s
Michigan War Studies Review
National Review
New Republic
News Workshop
(New York University Department of Journalism newsletter)
Newsweek
New Yorker
The Quill
(AP newsletter)
Quill & Quire
(Canadian journalism review)
Reader’s Digest
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Review
The Scene
(Colgate University magazine)
Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal
Time
www.airfieldinformationexchange.org
www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1543
www.archive.org/details/battle_of_san_pietro
www.history.army.mil/books/WWII/Utah11
www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/36division/archives.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenock_Blitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Allied_Airborne_Army
Newspapers
Albany Times-Union
Atlanta Constitution
Baltimore Afro-American
Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago Sun
Chicago Times
Des Moines Register
Detroit News
Kansas City Kansan
Kansas City Star
London Daily Mail
(U.K.)
London Times
(U.K.)
Los Angeles Times
Manchester Guardian
(U.K.)
Miami Herald
Newark Evening News
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
New York World-Telegram
Oakland Tribune
Philadelphia Bulletin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Providence Journal
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Stars and Stripes
Washington Evening Star
Washington Post
Broadcast
CBS News, producer.
Air Power: The Riveting Stories of World War II Air Combat.
CBS News series rereleased in 2008; hosted by Walter Cronkite.
——.
World War II with Walter Cronkite: War in Europe.
CBS News series rereleased in 2003; hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Child, Rob, and Associates, producer.
Silent Wings—The American Glider Pilots of World
War II.
Released in 2007; narrated by Hal Holbrook and featuring Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite.
Friendly, Fred, producer.
D-Day Plus 20 Years
. CBS News documentary with General Eisenhower released in 1964; narrated and hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Gable, Clark, producer.
Combat America
. U.S. Signal Corps documentary, 1943–1944.
Huston, John, director.
The Battle of San Pietro.
U.S. Signal Corps documentary, 1943–1944.
Layzell, Alastair, producer.
City at War: London Calling
. Colonial/Independent production released in 2004; narrated by Walter Cronkite.
——.
Legacy of War
. Colonial/Independent production released in 2007; narrated by Walter Cronkite.
Polin, Daniel B., producer, with Kenneth Mandel, producer and director, and Ken Lewis, director.
George Marshall and the American Century.
Great Projects Film Company Inc., 1994.
Russell, William D., director, with Bernard Girard, director.
You Are There: World War II Begins.
CBS News series rereleased in 2004; hosted by Walter Cronkite.
Wellman, William, director, and Lester Cowan, producer.
Ernie Pyle’s The Story of G.I. Joe
. United Artists, 1945.
Wyler, William, director.
The Memphis Belle
, U.S. Signal Corps documentary, 1943.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
1.
Interview with Anthony Lewis at Colleville, July 2011; plus e-mail from Anthony Lewis, August 2011.
PROLOGUE
D-Day for All Their Lives
1.
War diary of Major Robert Sheets; plus interviews with Colleen Sheets and e-mails from Sally Sheets Wiggins, 2010–2011.
2.
Ibid.
3.
303rd Bomb Group History (
www.303rdbg.com/missions.html
).
4.
Shoo Shoo Baby
is not the B-17
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
(three “Shoos”) that’s on permanent display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. A different bomber, Bob Sheets’
Shoo Shoo Baby
(two “Shoos”) was scrapped at the end of the war.
5.
www.303rdbg.com/missions.html
; plus referenced in the documentary
Legacy of War
.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Interviews with Andy Rooney, 2010–2011; plus
My War
, pp. 91–92.
8.
Letter from Walter Cronkite to Betsy Maxwell Cronkite, August 20, 1944.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, July 9, 1944, although it may have been misdated.
11.
Walter Cronkite and Don Carleton,
Conversations with Cronkite
, pp. 51–52.
12.
Walter Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 99.
13.
Ibid., pp. 88–89.
14.
Cronkite Remembers
documentary, Discovery Channel, Volume 1.
15.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 78.
16.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, February 12, 1944.
17.
Various letters from Walter to Betsy, 1943–1944.
18.
Sheets’ diary. (Parenthetical note: Billy Southworth, Jr., the son of 1943 St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Billy “The Kid” Southworth, Sr., was a pilot in the 303rd Bomb Group stationed at Molesworth. Small world.)
19.
www.303rdbg.com/missions.html
.
20.
Slang expression used in Cronkite’s letters to Betsy.
21.
Cronkite–Salisbury story referenced in Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 139.
22.
www.303rdbg.com/missions.html
.
23.
Miller,
Masters of the Air
, p. 7.
24.
Rooney,
My War
, pp. 82–85.
25.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, p. 103.
26.
Letter from Walter to Betsy, May 14, 1944.
27.
Barney Oldfield,
Never a Shot in Anger
, p. 65.
28.
“On maneuvers” was the euphemism used by PROs to describe those correspondents who in the spring of 1944 were assimilated with troops girding for the invasion. It was meant to throw off the enemy in case reporters were under surveillance.
29.
Cronkite and Carleton,
Conversations
, p. 58.
30.
Cronkite,
A Reporter’s Life
, pp. 103–4.
31.
Script notes from producer/writer Mary Dore’s treatment for
Cronkite Remembers
documentary, Discovery Channel, in Cronkite’s personal papers.