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Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II

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I bought this book for my husband, a veteran of the Southwest Pacific WW II and his review follows.

The european war is well covered, from the D-day landings to the final surrender. The Baltimore Sun war reporters spent a lot of time on site and did a great job with intimate coverage of the events and progress as the war progressed. The final four chapters are devoted to the Pacific campaign, covering the final days of this war and hardly needed to be included. But this is an accurate account of the Sun war reporting, since it was devoted almost entirely to the European scene. The unfortunate coverage of the Pacific is common, since little attention is ever given to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's island hopping strategy as a contribution to that phase of the war. I served in New Guinea, Morotai, Borneo and the Philappines as a radar repairman when radar was a wartime secret. It is too bad that these Baltimore Sun reporters apparently did not cover this part of the war. Otherwise a fascinating, interesting book.