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by Nancy Cladwell Sorel


  Badoglio, Pietro, 28, 198

  Bailey bridge incident, 202-3

  Balkans, 112

  Bard,Josef,2,4, 5, 127

  Barden, Judy, 244, 261-62

  Barnes, Ralph, 94, 95

  Barnett, Lincoln, 184

  Basilone, John, 308

  Bastogne (Belgium), 288-91

  Bataan, 155-58, 162,297

  Battle of Britain, 96, 98-105

  Battle of the Bulge, 284-92

  BBC, 78, 164,214

  Beaton, Cecil, 195

  Beattie, Ed, 78

  Beaverbrook, Lord, 83

  Belden, Jack, 135, 136

  Belgium, 79,81

  Benes, Eduard, 55, 56

  Benjamin, Anna, xv, 43, 59

  Berchtesgaden, 369-70, 383

  Berlin, 4-5, 127-28; Allied capture of, 365-69; post-surrender, 385; prewar, 16-18; at start of war, 94-95; wartime, 109-12

  Bernhard, Andrew, 395

  Binder, Carroll, 76

  biological warfare, Japanese, 108-9

  Birmingham (England), 103

  Blitz on London, 99-105

  Blue Network, 339

  Blum, Leon, 386

  Bockhorst, John Arthur, 279

  Bolshevism, 5, 59-60

  Boni, Bill, 285, 287-88

  Booker, Edna Lee, 131, 132

  Boston Globe, 215,283

  Boston Herald, 216, 217

  Boston Traveler, 307

  Bourke-White, Margaret, 43-48, 334; accreditation, 176, 178; B-17

  bombing mission, 176, 184, 189-91; Bailey bridge, 202-3;

  Bavaria, 332-33; Buchenwald, 349; Czechoslovakia, 47-48; “Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly,” 241; Erla work camp, 351-53; and Erskine Caldwell, 46, 47, 72-73, 176; Fortune magazine, 45; Frankfurt, 330-31; German attack on USSR, 117-24; German surrender, 373; Italy, 200-203, 205-7, 240; and J. Hampton Atkinson, 189; Krupp interview, 383; Leipzig, 336-37; Life assignments, 47, 73-74, 176,184-87, 391-92; and Luce, 45-46; North Africa, 183-87, 189-91; North of the Danube, 48; and Papurt, 201-2, 206, 240-41; Purple Heart Valley, 201, 206; Shooting the Russian War, 122; Stalin photographs, 120-21; violations of army regulations, 200-201; “Women in Lifeboats” (Life), 184-87; You Have Seen Their Faces, 46

  Boussard, Henri, 257

  Bracker, Milton, 314

  Bradley, Omar, 219, 326

  Braun, Eva, 362-63, 364, 365

  Brewer, Sam, 77, 78

  Brines, Russell, 154, 155

  British Expeditionary Force, 83 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 113

  Bruce, David, 96

  Buchenwald concentration camp, 347-50

  Burdette, Winston, 76, 112-13

  buzz bombs (V-ls), 232-33, 250, 350

  Caen (France), 234

  Caldwell, Erskine, 48, 184; and Bourke-White, 46, 47, 72-73, 176; North of the Danube, 48;

  Russia, 117-19, 121-24; You Have Seen Their Faces, 46

  Camp Kilmer (New Jersey), 183

  Capa, Robert, 255, 257, 270

  Cardozo, Major, 29, 31

  Carpathian Lancers, 237

  Carpenter, Iris, 214, 215, 216, 242, 323; Aachen, 276-77; accreditation, 283-84; Battle of the Bulge, 285-88, 291-92; court-martial of, 234; de Gaulle speech, 253-54; German surrender, 373-74; hospitals, post-D Day, 248; Huertgen Forest, 284; Lager Dora camp, 350-51; Leipzig, 336-37; in liberated Paris, 261; Metz surrender, 278-79; Mulde River press camp, 340-41; Normandy invasion, 222-23, 227, 231, 234; No Woman’s World, 395; post-D Day France, 248; post-surrender, 382, 387; postwar adjustment, 395; Remagen, 325-28; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 342, 345; views on wartime sex, 322-23

  Carson, Lee, 213-14, 242, 323, 326, 365-66, 374; Aachen, 276-77; accreditation, 283-84; Battle of the Bulge, 285-88, 291-92; Erla work camp, 351-53; Leipzig, 336-37; in liberated Paris, 258, 271; Mulde River press camp, 340-41; Normandy invasion, 229; post-surrender, 387; postwar adjustment, 395; Rhine crossing, 327-28; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 342, 345; views on wartime sex, 322-23

  Carter, Ernestine, Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire, 195

  Cassidy, Henry, 119

  Cassino (Italy), 209-10

  Catholic Church, 77

  CBS, 74-76, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116,301

  censorship, 16, 31-32, 42, 53, 101, 112, 114, 115, 146, 154, 156, 206-7,219, 242,253,283,284, 296, 303, 368-69

  Chamberlain, Neville, 52, 53, 54, 55-56, 59, 68, 76, 104

  Chambers, Whittaker, 296

  Channel crossing, 243-44

  Chapelle, Dickey (Georgette Louise Meyer), 306-8; Iwo Jima, 310-13; Okinawa, 377-80; postwar adjustment, 397

  Chapelle, Tony, 307

  Cherbourg (France), 234

  Chiang Kai-shek, 132, 134, 135, 143, 296

  Chiang Kai-shek (Madame), 142-43, 296

  Chicago Daily News, 28, 32, 58, 65,

  76, 83, 129, 172-73,204,211,

  219,225,261,271,392 Chicago Daily Times, 214 Chicago Tribune, 4, 7-8, 20-21, 29, 52,58, 64-65, 77, 78, 110,339, 348

  China, 27, 131-46, 159-69, 196-98, 294-96

  China-Burma-India theater (CBI), 179, 196, 294-95

  China National Aviation Company, 133

  China Press, 131

  Choltitz, Dietrich von, 256

  Chou En-lai, 131, 135, 143-44

  Chungking (China), 134-36, 146, 196, 295-96

  Churchill, Winston, 76, 89, 97, 104, 118,127, 149,381

  Ciano, Count, 65, 77

  Clark, William, 391

  Clark Field (Manila), 151, 154

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 294

  Cocteau, Jean, 271; Blood of a Poet (film), 194

  Codreanu, Corneliu, 74

  Colette (camp survivor), 354-56

  Colette (writer), 314

  Collier, Crowell, 302 Collier’s, 24, 36, 39-40, 49, 56, 137-40,207,219,229-31, 273-74, 290, 302, 339, 360-61

  Collins, General, 350-51

  Cologne, 317-19

  Communism, 40, 117

  Company A Infantry, First Army Armored Division, 326

  concentration camps, 17, 20, 280-81, 347-61

  Corregidor, 157, 162

  Cosmopolitan, 131,379

  Coventry (England), 103-4

  Cowan, Ruth, 180-84; North Africa, 180, 182-83, 187-88, 192; death of FDR, 333-34; hospitals, post-D Day, 248; in liberated Paris, 263-64; Normandy invasion, 228-29, 234; post-D Day France, 248-49; post-surrender, 386; postwar adjustment, 393

  Cowles, Virginia, 33-36, 58, 66-67, 82, 92, 239; Battle of Britain, 96-99; Czechoslovakia, 49; England, prewar, 49-50; France, 89, 90; Hitler’s Nuremberg speech, 51-52; Italy, prewar, 65; Italy, wartime, 207-8; London Blitz, 100; Madrid, 34-38; Spain, 42; Mussolini interview, 33; Nationalist Nazi Party congress, 50-52; and Neville Chamberlain, 55-56; Order of the British Empire, 393; Paris, 86-87; postwar adjustment, 393-94; Prague, 54-56; Soviet indoctrination incident, 40-41; Sunday Times articles on Spain, 53

  Coyne, Catherine, 28, 216-19, 267, 335; Bastogne, 288-90; Cologne, 317-19; death of FDR, 333-34; de Gaulle speech, 253-54; Gestapo activities, 268; Holland parachute mission, 273; in liberated Paris, 261, 264-66; London, V-l rockets, 233; Nijmegen, 274-76; Normandy invasion, 226, 227-28; Norway after surrender, 383; and Patton, 324; post-D Day France, 242-44; postwar adjustment, 395, 396; prisoners of war, 338; Rheims surrender, 372-73; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 342,345-46; Siegfried Line, 281-82; views on wartime sex, 322

  Crawley, Aidan, 98, 394

  Cronin, Ray, 155

  Crost, Lyn, 315

  Curtis syndicate, 2

  Czechoslovakia, 47-57, 59, 72

  Dachau, 356-61

  Daily Express (London), 37, 62, 83, 214,384 Daily Herald (London), 132,215 Daily Mail (London), 29, 30-32, 69, 78, 83

  Daily Mirror (London), 87 Daily News, 68

  Daily Telegraph (London), 14, 52

  Daniell, Raymond, 95-96, 112, 174-75, 262; in liberated Paris, 271; London Blitz, 102-3; postwar adjustment, 392-93; postwar Berlin, 385

  Davis, Frances, 28-33, 40, 391

  D Da
y, 224-34. See also Normandy invasion; Overlord

  de Gaulle, Charles, 91, 254, 259-60, 338

  del Drago, Prince and Princess, 65

  DeLuce, Dan, 396

  Denmark, 74-76, 370

  Denny, Harold, 164

  Detroit Free Press, 216,225,232

  Detroit News, 159

  Deuell, Harvey, 294

  Deuell, Peggy Hull, xv-xvi, 132, 294, 303-4, 309-10, 377

  Dew, Gwen, 159

  “Dickson, John.” See Schultz, Sigrid

  Dietrich, Marlene, 271

  displaced persons, 331, 340. See also

  refugees Dixon, Jeanne, 187

  Dlugoszowski, General, 65

  Donitz, Karl, 363-64,370

  Doolittle, Jimmy, 189

  Dos Passos, John, 15, 25, 34, 39, 41

  Dover (England), 96-97, 175

  Duncan, Elspeth, 184, 186

  Dunkirk, 82

  Duranty, Walter, 78

  Durdin, Tillman and Peggy, 135

  Economist, 52

  Egypt, 27

  Eighth Army, British, 239

  Eightieth Division, Third Army, 347

  Eightieth Infantry, 332

  Eighty-second Airborne, 273-74, 340

  Eisenhower, DwightD., 170, 180, 200,219, 224,250,256,285, 370-72

  Eleventh Field Hospital, 205-6

  Elliott, John, 29, 90

  Emergency Relief Administration, 23

  England: declaration of war, 68; German attack, 92-105; German

  civilian sympathy for, 109-10;

  prewar, 49-50; support of Soviet

  Union, 118; U.S. mood toward, 1941, 175

  Erla work camp, 351-53

  espionage, alleged, 40-41, 236-37

  Ethiopia, 27

  European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (ETOUSA), 170

  Excelsior Hotel (Siena), 163-64 Express (London), 14

  Fadiman, Clifton, 395

  Fascism, 12, 42, 149. See also Nazi Party

  feminist movement, 390, 398

  Feversham, Lord, 49

  FifthArmy,200,208,235,239

  Fifth Corps, 286

  Fifth General Hospital, 247

  Fifty-eighth Guards Division of the

  Red Army, 344

  Fifty-fifth Division, 362

  Finch, Barbara, 303-4, 311, 312

  First Army, 272, 276-77, 283, 284, 285-87,291-92,317,323,340, 374-75

  First Battalion, First Army, 340-46

  First British Airborne, 273-74

  First Canadian Corps, 239

  First Division, 225

  Flanner, Janet (Genet), 8-11, 71-72, 81-82, 314; Blue Network, 339; Buchenwald, 350; Cologne, 317-19; death of FDR, 334; female prisoners of war, 338-39; “Fuehrer,” 10-11; Legion d’hon-neur, 391; “Letter(s) from Paris” (New Yorker), 8, 10, 53-54, 72, 277-78, 354-56, 374-76, 391; “Peace in Our Time” (New Yorker), 54; Petain trial, 385-86

  Flannery, Harry, 116

  Fleeson, Doris, 245 Flying Flitgun (B-17), 177, 184, 189

  Flying Fortresses (B-17s), 191

  Foreign Policy Association, 14 Fortune, 45, 106

  Forty-fifth Division, 356-58, 362

  Forty-fourth Evacuation Hospital, 246-47

  Forty-second Division, 356-58

  Foster, Helen, 132 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 315

  Fourteenth Tank Battalion, 325

  Fourteenth U.S. Air Force Forward

  Echelon, 197-98

  Fourth Armored Division, 323-26

  Fourth Infantry Division, 258

  France; capitulation to Hitler, 89-91; and death of FDR, 334;

  declaration of war, 68; post-D

  Day, 242-55; refugees in, 81-91;

  southern, Allies in, 238-39. See

  also Paris Franco, General, 25-26, 31, 32, 41

  Frankfurt, 330-32 Frankfurter Zeitung, 131

  Frankish, Jack, 285, 287, 288

  French Forces of the Interior (FFI), 239, 250, 254, 258, 259, 269, 280

  Fuller, Margaret, 59

  Furst, Peter, 356-58

  Gallagher, Wes, 116, 188, 192, 322, 386

  Gandhi, 392

  Gavin, James, 273

  Gellhorn, Edna, 21-23

  Gellhorn, Martha, 21-24, 34, 35-36, 39-40,211,267,272,340; Bastogne, 290-91; Chiang Kai-shek, 143; China, 136-40, 145; Chou En-lai, 144; Dachau, 360-61; “Death of a Dutch Town” (Collier’s), 274; England, prewar, 49-50; flouting of restrictions, 229-31, 235; Gestapo activities, 269- 70; Gothic Line, 239-40; and Hemingway, 24, 37, 39, 41, 56, 136-40,207,221-22,230-31, 270- 71, 323-24; Holland parachute mission, 273-74; Hotel Florida, 36; Italy, 207-8, 235; Madrid, 34-40; Normandy invasion, 226, 229-31; “Obituary of a Democracy” (Collier’s), 56; Palace Hotel, 39-40; Polish refugees, 219-20, 237-38; post-surrender, 387-88, 389; postwar adjustment, 393-95; Prague, 56-57; “Rough and Tumble” (Collier’s), 273-74; Singapore, 145-46; A Stricken Field, 56-57; Travels with Myself and Another, 137; The Trouble Yve Seen, 23; “The Wounded Come Home” (Collier’s), 229-31

  George, Lloyd, 53

  George VI, King, and Queen Elizabeth, 172-73

  German people, postwar reactions, 339-40, 349, 359-60

  Germany; advance on Belgium and Holland, 79; advance on Czechoslovakia, 47-48, 59; advance on Denmark and Norway, 74-76; advance on England, 92-105; advance on France, 81-91; advance on Greece, 112-16; advance on North Africa, 191-92; advance on Paris, 89; advance on Poland, 62, 67; advance on Soviet Union, 117-24; attitude toward U.S., 129; division of, 1945, 340-41; Italian alliance with, 149-51; Italian campaign, 202-3; Italian retreat, 200-210; Malmedy Massacre, 286-87; mobilization of, pre-World War II, 65-68; and Normandy invasion, 232-34; pockets held, in face of defeat, 251, 334-35; prewar tension, 16-21; surrender in Europe, 370-71, 374-76; torture tactics, 267-70. See also Nazi Party Gestapo, 17,267-70,318-19

  Goebbels, Joseph, 111, 364

  Goering, Hermann, 5, 19-20, 66, 97, 98, 364-65, 383

  Gothic Line (Italy), 239-40

  Graham, Betty, 135, 143

  Grand Hotel (Dover), 96

  Gran Via Hotel (Madrid), 34-35, 36-37

  Grave (Holland), 276

  Great Britain. See England Greece, German attack on, 112-16

  Guam, 297-98, 304, 380

  Guernica, 42

  Hahn, Emily, 132-33, 168

  Haldane, Charlotte Burghes, 122

  HaldaneJ. B. S, 38, 122

  Halifax, Lord Charles, 76

  Hall, Flem, 274

  Hall, William, 396-97

  Hanfstaengl, Ernst Sedgwick, 6, 11

  Harbin (Manchuria), 107-9

  Hargrove, Rosette, 246 Harpers, 7

  Harriman, Kathleen, 170

  Hawaii, 129, 148-52, 302-3

  Healy, Tom, 87

  Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 258

  Hemingway, Ernest, 15, 24, 34, 35-36, 143, 145,255,259,278, 290, 386; For Whom the Bell Tolls, 137; and Gellhorn, 24, 37, 39, 41, 56, 136-40, 207, 221-22, 230-31, 270-71, 323-24; Paris liberation, 256-57; and Welsh, 221-22, 270-71,392

  Hemingway, Hadley, 37, 270

  Hemingway, Pauline, 37

  Hendaye (France), 28, 29, 31

  Herald (London), 14

  Herald Tribune, 52, 62, 68, 81, 87, 90,101-2,174,178,316,357-58, 396, 397

  Herbst, Josephine, 15-19, 33, 34, 35-36, 37, 39, 40, 41; “Behind the Swastika” (New York Post), 16-19; and John Herrmann, 16; postwar adjustment, 391

  Herrmann, John, 15

  Hersey, John, 141-42

  Hewlett, Frank, 297

  Hickam Air Force Base, 303

  Higgins, Marguerite, 319-21; Berchtesgaden, 370, 383; Buchenwald, 347-50; Dachau, 356-58; Frankfurt, 331-32; and George Milar, 384-85; German surrender, 373; Paris, 3 2 0-21; postwar adjustment, 396; Pulitzer Prize, 396-97; views on wartime sex, 321

  Himmler, Heinrich, 365

  Hirohito, Emperor, 381

  Hiroshima, atomic bomb on, 381

  Hitler, Adolf, 4, 5-6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 47, 50-52, 54, 59, 82, 279-80; buzz b
ombs, 232-33; and Count Ciano, 65; death of, 363-65; Flanner portrait of, 10-11; German underground resistance to, prewar, 16-19; Munich residence, 362; and Neville Chamberlain, 52, 68; Nuremberg speech, 51-52; orders to destroy Paris, 256; Schultz interview, 5-6; and Soviet Union, prewar, 64-65; Thompson interview, 6

  HitlerYouth,21,331,364

  Hobby, Oveta Culp, 179

  Hodges, Courtney, 292, 326, 374

  Holland, 79, 81, 160, 273-76, 370

  home leave, during wartime, 195-96

  Hong Kong, 159

  Hopkins, Harry, 120

  Horst (photographer), 277-78

  Hotel Adlon (Berlin), 4, 5, 7, 109

  Hotel Deutscher Hof (Nuremberg), 50

  Hotel Florida (Madrid), 34, 35, 36

  Hotel Saint-Germain-des-Pres

  (Paris), 10, 53

  Hotel Scribe (Paris), 258, 262, 272, 278

  House Un-American Activities

  Committee, 122 Houston Chronicle, 181

  Hudson, Eugene A., 396

  Huertgen Forest, 284

  Hull, Peggy. See Deuell, Peggy Hull Hutton, Graham, 52

  Imatz Hotel (Hendaye), 29

  India, 196, 392

  Indochina, 159-69

  infiltrators, 285

  insignia, for reporters, 171

  International Brigades, 38

  International News Service (INS), 31, 131, 187,213,214 Internews, 161

  internment, 155-56, 159-69, 297, 299-300. See also arrests of reporters Invasion Weekend (Britain), 97-98

  Irwin, Virginia, 212-13; “abortion camp,” 353-54; capture of Berlin, 365-69; de Gaulle speech, 253-54; flouting of SHAEF regulations, 273; Frankfurt, 331; in liberated Paris, 261-62; with Patton’s Fourth Armored Division, 324-25; post-D Day France, 242-44; post-surrender, 387; postwar adjustment, 396; POW releases, 337-38; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 342, 345

  Italy, 25, 62-64, 77, 163; advance on Albania, 63-64; attitude toward U.S., 129-30; end of war, 370; Fascist state, 12; German-Japanese alliance, 149-51; during German retreat, 200-210, 235-41; Gothic Line, 239-40; and Greece, 113; incarceration of U.S. reporters, 163-65; and Pearl Harbor, 149; surrender to Allies, 198

  Iwo Jima, 304-13

  Jackson, Allan, 323, 342, 376, 384

  Jacoby, Annalee Whitmore, 154; Babes in Arms (film), 141; Bataan, 156-58; Chiang Kai-shek interview, 296; Chungking, 140-43, 294- 96; Japanese bombing of Manila, 152-53; Philippines, 154-58, 160, 162; postwar adjustment, 395; Thunder out of China, 395; and Theodore H. White, 295- 96, 395

 

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