American War Correspondents/Photographers
Who Covered the Korean War for the Media

Most recent update to this page: March 08, 2024

Correspondents, photographers and cameramen had to rely on the American army for communications, transportation, and housing.  Also, although war correspondents were technically "protected" by international conventions, that was not the case when they were in the field covering the progress of the war.  Most front-line correspondents (as opposed to "headquarters correspondents") carried weapons--and sometimes they had to use them.

In spite of the dangers they faced while trying to cover the war in Korea, by September 1950 there were 238 war correspondents in Korea and eventually there were 270.  Some correspondents lost their lives or were wounded while trying to report the progress of the war.  Others who survived it have since written books and articles about their memories of being in Korea as war correspondents.*

On this page is an incomplete list of civilian and military war correspondents.  To add more names and information to this new page of the Korean War Educator contact Lynnita or write Lynnita Brown, 111 E. Houghton St., Tuscola, Illinois 61953; phone 217-253-4620.

*[KWE Note: In her memoir of the Korean War, Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins wrote, "Despite the much-publicized 270 accreditations to the Korean War, there were never to my knowledge more than sixty-odd correspondents actually at the front at any one time, and the average was closer to twenty."]

Table of Contents:

• American War Correspondents
• Foreign War Correspondents
• Short Biographies of War Correspondents
  • Howard Benedict
  • Margaret Bourke-White
  • Malcolm Browne
  • James Monroe Cannon III
  • William J. "Sandy" Colton
  • David Douglas Duncan
  • Michael J. Green
  • Marguerite Higgins
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Lester A. Marks
  • Frank E. "Pappy" Noel
  • Sarah Park
  • Robert Willard Pierce
  • John Rich
  • Ray Richards
  • Robert Vermillion
  • Nora Waln
• Correspondents Killed in Action in Korea
• Facts and Trivia
• Reference Material

American War Correspondents/Photographers

• Baars, M/Sgt. Fred W.
   
• Baird, Capt. Tom
   
• Benedict, Howard - See Short Bio section.
   
• Bowers, Cpl. John
   
• Browne, Malcolm - Drafted into the Army and became a tank driver before being reassigned to work for two years as a reporter for Stars & Stripes.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Barnard, Bill - Associated Press correspondent
   
• Barrett, George - New York Times correspondent
   
• Barrow, Sgt. Lionel C. - combat correspondent
   
• Bartholomew, ____ - Correspondent for United Press
   
• Beech, Keyes - Chicago Daily News.  Arrived during the first days of the war via transport aircraft with fighter cover.
   
• Behrens, Roy S. - Roy S. Behrens, 77, died Oct. 15, 2009. Mr. Behrens was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. His family moved to Springfield, Ill., where he graduated from Springfield High School. Mr. Behrens served in the Korean War as a photographer in the 4th Signal Battalion X Corps. He later became a Certified Professional Photographer of America in Lincoln, Ill., where he owned and operated Continental Studio for over 30 years. During this time, Mr. Behrens and his brother Morty also owned and operated Edwards Jewelry. The Behrens family moved to Tucson in 1986. Mr. Behrens founded the Telephone Jack Specialist company before retiring. Mr. Behrens was preceded in death by his brother, Herb Behrens. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Behrens; son, Michael Behrens of Gilbert, Ariz.; and brother, Morty Behrens of Springfield, Ill. Services were held at Temple Emanuel with Rabbi Samuel Cohon of Temple Emanuel officiating. Interment followed at All Faiths Cemeteries. Arrangements were made by Evergreen Mortuary & Cemetery.
   
• Bell, John - Time and Life correspondent.  Wounded in action.
   
• Bennyhof, Robert - United Press correspondent with the Korean I Corps and KMAG in 1950.  Wounded in action.
   
• Bigart, Homer
   
• Blair, William D. Jr. - War correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he was wounded by a Korean sniper.
   
• Bourke-White, Margaret - War correspondent/photographer for Life magazine who traveled with South Korean troops during Korean War.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Bowers, Don - combat correspondent from West Virginia (Corporal Bowers)
   
• Boyle, Hal - Associated Press correspondent
   
• Brines, Russ - Associated Press correspondent who accompanied General MacArthur on front line visits
   
• Buckley, Charles - Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, he was killed in Korea on August 12, 1950 when his jeep ran over a landmine.  Ian Morrison was killed in the same accident.
   
• Burns, Sgt. Billy B. - combat correspondent
   
• Cannon, James Monroe III - War correspondent with the Baltimore Sun and later aide to various national politicians.  See Short Bios section.
   
• Carson, Tom - reporter and correspondent for International News was wounded slightly by shrapnel during the American counter-drive on the southern coast front west of Masan.
   
• Chang, Al - Military photographer in the Korean War
   
• Chapelle, Georgette Louise Meyer "Dickey" - photojournalist in the Korean War.  She was later killed while on patrol with a Marine platoon in Vietnam.
   
• Christensen, Cpl. William L. - Combat correspondent from Council Bluffs, Iowa
   
• Cioffi, Lou - CBS newsman who worked with Edward R. Murrow on CBS's "See It Now - Christmas in Korea"
   
• Cohon, Charles
   
• Colton, William J. "Sandy" - Air Force combat correspondent.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Conlon, Joseph T. Jr.  - A 1957 graduate of Harvard Law School, Conlon died October 13, 2003. He was a professor emeritus at St. Louis University. He also taught at the University of Notre Dame and was a prosecuting attorney of Lincoln County, Missouri.  During the Korean War, he was a U.S. Army correspondent for The Stars and Stripes newspaper.
   
• Conniff, Frank - Correspondent that covered the Korean War in 1950-1951
   
• Crane, Burton - New York Times reporter who covered the destruction of the Han River bridge at Seoul (“South Koreans Kill Own Troops by Destroying Bridge Too Soon”, The New York Times, June 29, 1950, p.3).  Wounded in action.  One of the first war correspondents to arrive in Korea.
   
• David, Lt. Allan A. - 25th Infantry Division PIO and war correspondent
   
• Davidson, Michael - Correspondent for the Observer
   
• Davies, John O. - War correspondent for the Newark Evening News during the Korean War and employee of the same paper for 25 years.  He was the only reporter from that paper to have covered three wars: A U. S. Marine Combat Correspondent in World War II … the Chinese Civil War in 1948-49 … and the Korean War in 1950 for the Newark Evening News. Davies, in 1950-51, was the first journalist from New Jersey ever to win a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University. This prestigious award, given to mid-career journalists by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, allows the winner time to reflect on his career, and hone his journalistic skills.  He photographed the Inchon Landing for the Newark Evening News.  Wounded in action.
   
• Dearie, Philip - an International News correspondent was wounded and captured by the enemy in the Taejon area after the Chinese broke through the Kunuri defense line.
   
• Desfor, Max - Associated Press photographer
   
• Dibble, Arnold - United Press
   
• Dille, John - Correspondent for Life magazine
   
• Downs, Bill - CBS newsman who served with Edward R. Murrow on CBS's "See It Now - Christmas in Korea"
   
• Dubois, Sfc. Doug - combat correspondent for Stars & Stripes
   
• Duncan, David Douglas - Renowned combat photographer (World War II veteran).  Shot outstanding photographs of the Korean War that were later made into a book.  See Short Bios section.
   
• Duquette, Donald D. - combat photographer in Korea.  Died March 14, 2014 of multiple myeloma.
   
• Eunson, Robert - "Robert C. Eunson, a iong-time foreign correspondent and The Associated Press executive who was vice president in charge of broadcast activities for the last 10 years, died Thursday of cancer. He was 62 years old and lived at 1520 York Avenue. Mr. Eunson, who began his career in journalism as an 11 year-old newsboy the night Jack Dempsey knocked out Luis Angel Firpo in 1923, covered both the Pacific and European theaters in World War II. He wrote the flash signaling the Panmunjom armistice ending the Korean war and organized A.P.'s early coverage of the Vietnam war before returning to New York to head the broadcast wire. Under his stewardship, the broadcast division of A.P. expanded from serving 2,700 radio and television stations in the nation to 3,400 stations here and abroad. The wire on which it operates covers 145,000 miles, believed to be the longest single news circuit in the world. Mr. Eunson also supervised the extension of broadcast services to cable television stations and the start last fall of A.P. Radio, a voice news service."  [Source: New York Times, May 24, 1975, p. 26.]
   
• Faber, Harold - New York Times war correspondent.  Wounded in action.
   
• Farnetis, ____
   
• Fielder, Wilson - War correspondent for Time and Life.  Formerly Hong Kong Bureau Chief for Time, Fielder died July 22, 1950 by gunfire as he leaving Communist-captured Taejon.  He had been transferred to Korea one week after the war started.
   
• Fitzgerald, MSgt. Bill -
   
• Frank, Emery  - International News Service correspondent, age 23, from Beverly Hills, California, was killed on September 6, 1950 when the C-54 cargo plane that was taking him and other correspondents back to Korea exploded and crashed shortly after leaving base in southern Japan.  Emery had returned to Tokyo for a rest on August 23 after suffering three wounds in a night patrol action across the Naktong River west of Taegu.
   
• Fromson, Cpl. Murray
   
• Gayn, Mark - War correspondent for the Chicago Sun Times during the Korean War.
   
• Gibney, Frank - Time magazine war correspondent.  Wounded during the blowup of the Han River Bridge.  One of the first war correspondents to arrive in Korea.
   
• Gilbert, Sgt. Jim - correspondent for Pacific Stars & Stripes
   
• Green, Michael J. - Stars & Stripes correspondent for the 7th Infantry Division in 1951/52.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Greenfield, James - Voice of America's foxhole narrator from Cleveland, Ohio
   
• Griffin, Cpl. Russell - correspondent from Philadelphia
   
• Grooms, Sgt. Donald - Combat photographer from Bald Knob, Arkansas
   
• Guerra, Eliseo Combas - (1904-1985), visited Korea as a civilian correspondent and reported much on the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment.  He was mainly focused on political issues.
   
• Halberstam, David
   
• Handleman, Howard - International News Service correspondent who accompanied General MacArthur on front line visits
   
• Hansen, Leroy - United Press correspondent to Korea
   
• Heyward, Henry - correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor
   
• Herman, George - CBS radio reporter
   
• Herrick, Gene E. - Gene E. Herrick was with The Associated Press. He went to Korea in late July or early August, 1950. He was a staff photographer correspondent for AP. He told the KWE:  "I landed in Pusan in those very early days, covered the war moving north, and later went to the Yalu River. I was the first war correspondent to reach that far off place and took the first pictures of the 17th Regiment of the 7th Division reaching that border town. I took the picture of the four or five GI’s, in cold-weather gear, holding their guns skyward while standing in the river and China/Russian the background."
   
• Higgins, Marguerite - Born September 3, 1920 in Hong Kong, she received an MA from the Columbia University School of Journalism and  then became a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.  She served in England for two years and then was assigned to Germany, where she witnessed the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp in 1945.  She later covered the Nuremberg war trials and the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin.  One of the first war correspondents to arrive in Korea when the war broke out, she shared the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with five other war correspondents.  She was wounded in action.  She continued her journalism career until just prior to her death on January 3, 1966 in Washington, D.C.  See also Short Bios section.
   
• Hill, Dick - Marine radio correspondent who carried heavy tape-recording gear into the battle zone in 1952-53.  See Reference Material section.
   
• Hinton, Albert L. - Norfolk (Virginia) Journal and Guide war correspondent.  Died July 27, 1950 with 25 others when the military plane carrying him to Korea crashed off the coast of Japan.  Hinton was the first African-American war correspondent to be killed in either World Wars or Korea.  He was the managing editor of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, on loan as a pool correspondent to the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association.
   
• Hoberecht, Earnest "Ernie" - Correspondent for United Press. Accompanied General MacArthur on front-line visits.
   
• Holloway, Cpl. Douglas - Correspondent from Holdenville, Oklahoma
   
• Huebner, William "Bill" [Note: Sometimes his last name was incorrectly spelled Heubner.] - Bill was a 1951 Korean War Correspondent for the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He fought with the infantry and wrote many articles for the Army’s Frontline newspaper and the Stars and Stripes. His daughter has the actual newspapers of some of the articles. Since he was a newspaper man before he got called up from the Reserves to serve in Korea, he also submitted an article to the Publishers’ Auxiliary, a newspaper for reporters. One particular article is in the May 12, 1951 edition.  He wrote on the Korean Times facility--what the Chinese did to it and how the editor tried to hide presses, etc. His daughter also has a picture of Bill in the press tent. He wrote articles in 1951 and was relieved of duty in October 1951 after training his replacements. Central Connecticut State University did a video project to capture veterans' stories. William Huebner's story can be found here: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/loc.natlib.afc2001001.18710. He served in WWII and Korea.  Anyone interested in hearing his story will have to fast forward to get the Korea section.
   
• Inouye, Ken - Age 22, he was a Japanese-American from Wen, New York who was a cameraman for Telenews, an affiliate of International News Service.  He was killed in the same crash as Frank Emery.  He had returned to Tokyo from Korea on August 31st and was returning to the Korean front. 
   
• Izenberg, Jerry - Hall of Fame sportswriter.  Born in Newark, New Jersey on September 10, 1930, he began writing for the Star-Ledger newspaper in 1951 while a student at Rutgers.  He served in the military for two years, writing for Stars & Stripes.  He became a writer for the Paterson (New Jersey) Evening News after his service, but joined the Star-Ledger again in 1954.  In 1957 he joined the Herald Tribune.  He authored nine books and many magazine articles and has been a writer, narrator or producer of 35 network documentaries, as well as a consultant for ESPN for several years.  Since August 1962 he has written more than 10,000 columns for the Newark Star-Ledger.  Recipient of the Red Smith Award in the year 2000.
   
• James, Jack - first American journalist to report the North Korean invasion of South Korea.  He was a United Press correspondent.  Wounded in action.
   
• James, Mike - New York Times reporter
   
• Jefferson, John - Columbia Broadcasting System war correspondent.  Wounded in action.
   
• Johnson, Richard -
   
• Jones, Gene - National Broadcasting Company war correspondent.  Wounded in action.
   
• Jordan, Bill - Associated Press reporter
   
• Kalischer, Peter - One of the first war correspondents to arrive in Korea, Kalischer worked as a United Press correspondent.
   
• Kane, Lawrence "Larry" - Stars & Stripes correspondent with Headquarters Company, 187th RCT in Korea and in Beppu, Japan from September 1950 to December 1951.
   
• Kennedy, Edward R. - Scripps-Howard correspondent and writer for the Indianapolis Star.  He died in Cleveland in 1975 at the age of 52.  He was publisher of The World Almanac and was vice president for publications of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.  He was also chairman of the research and development department of the E. W. Scripps Company, N.E.A.'s corporate parent, and a trustee of the Scripps-Howard Foundation.  According to a New York Times article: "He spent most of the nineteen-fifties in Asia, serving as managing editor of The Japan Times, a Tokyo-based English language newspaper. He also took part in the formation of The Okinawa Morning Star. One of his journalistic coups was the uncovering of a Chinese Communist extortion racket that attempted to collect money from United States prisoners of war." [Source: New York Times, June 18, 1975, pg. 39.]
   
• LaCombe, Lee - combat correspondent
   
• Lambert, Tom - Associated Press correspondent.  One of the first war correspondents to arrive in Korea.
   
• Landry, Bob - LIFE photographer in Korea
   
• Leseur, Larry - CBS newsman who worked with Edward R. Murrow on CBS's "See It Now - Christmas in Korea"
   
• Lorwin, I.R. - photographer from Pix Incorporated, a New York agency, whose photographs were distributed by the Associated Press in Britain
   
• Lucas, James Griffing (Jim G.) - 1954 Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting, "for his notable front-line human interest reporting of the Korean War, the cease fire, and the prisoner-of-war exchanges, climaxing 26 months of distinguished service as a war correspondent."  He was a combat correspondent with the Marines in World War II.  During the Korean War he was a correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers.  In addition to the Pulitzer, he was twice awarded the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award--once in Korea and the other in Vietnam.  Lucas was born June 22, 1914 in Checotah, Oklahoma, and died July 21, 1970 in Washington, D.C.
   
• Magee, Haywood - Cameraman for Picture Post in Korea
   
• Marks, Lester A. - Army photographer and first Army photographer to parachute into Korea with the 187th RCT.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Martin, Harold - Correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post
   
• Mauldin, William Henry "Bill" - War correspondent for Collier's.  See Short Bios section.
   
• Maury, Allen - New York sports writer and author of more than 30 books, Allen began his career writing for Stars & Stripes during the Korean War.  He got his start on the New York Post when one of the paper's writers died in a hotel fire.
   
• McConnell, David - Correspondent with the New York Herald Tribune
   
• McNeill, SSgt. Bob
• Merwin, Davis - Correspondent for the Copley news chain.  During World War I he served in the US Marines.  He returned to the Marines in World War II.  Known as the "Flying Newspaperman", he was publisher of the Bloomington Pantagraph in Illinois and the Minneapolis Star.  During the Korean War he went on a four-month tour of the Far East and Korea in September 1952, visiting outposts, patrolling enemy territory, and flying on air combat missions.  From 1955-56 he joined an American expedition to the Antarctic as a United Press International correspondent.  He died in March of 1973.
   
• Miller, Robert C. - United Press war correspondent particularly critical of suppression of news from Korea by censors.
   
• Miller, William - Correspondent with the United Press who became a specialist in atrocity stories
   
• Millholland, S/Sgt. Arthur "Mac" - Stars & Stripes correspondent with the 7th Infantry Division in 1951.  His Korean War memoir is located on the Korean War Educator's Memoirs pages.
   
• Moler, Murray - United Press war correspondent.
   
• Moore, Charles R. - United Press war correspondent who covered the drive to the Yalu River.
   
• Moore, William R. - Associated Press war correspondent.  Died on July 30, 1950 while helping U.S. soldiers hit by North Korean gunfire.  His body was found five years later.  He was the first journalist to describe North Korean atrocities, including the execution of U.S. soldiers.
   
• Morin, Pat - Associated Press reporter
   
• Morrison, Ian - Correspondent for The Times.  He was killed on August 12, 1950 when his jeep ran over a landmine.  Also killed in the same accident was correspondent Christopher Buckley.
   
• Murrow, Edward R. - filmed a news segment in Korea for CBS which raised questions about the war's overall aims.  He was in Korea during the first summer of the war.
   
• Mydans, Carl "Stumpy" - Photographer with Time and Life
   
• Noel, Frank E. "Pappy" - Associated Press photographer held as prisoner of war in Korea for over a year.  A camera and film was forwarded to him in the POW camps from Panmunjom and he photographed prisoners of war for the news media.  See Short Bios section.
   
• O'[Reilly, Sfc. Hugh F. - PIO and NCO of the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division
   
• Park, Sarah - Correspondent for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin during the Korean War.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Parrott, Lindsay - Correspondent, New York Times
   
• Payne, Ethel Lois -
   
• Peeler, Cpl. Ernie - Killed in action in Korea.  A brief story on the last page of Pacific Stars & Stripes July 28, 1950, reported that Peeler was missing in action.  He, International News Service correspondent Ray Richards and a jeep driver had last been seen heading toward a front line infantry battalion.  Later reports said they ran into a North Korean tank.  They were never seen again.  Peeler formerly worked for various San Bernardino newspapers and radio stations and had been in Tokyo about six months when he was killed.
   
• Petitclerc, Denne Bart - In 1950 he became a Korean War correspondent for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Miami Herald.  He later became active in television and the Big Screen, writing scripts for Bonanza, Then Came Bronson, The High Chaparral, and more.  He was a good friend of Ernest Hemingway.  Born in 1929, he died in 2006.
   
• Pierce, Robert Willard "Bob" - Correspondent for Christian Life Magazine, See Bio section.
   
• Pierpoint, Robert - CBS radio reporter who appeared on the first edition of "See It Now" in 1951.  He also played himself on the final segment of the television series M*A*S*H. CBS correspondent during Korean War.  Robert Charles Pierpoint was born May 16, 1925 in Redondo Beach, Calif. He joined the Navy upon his high school graduation in 1943, training stateside until his discharge in 1945. He attended California Institute of Technology on the G.I. Bill and graduated from California's University of Redlands in 1948. He then went overseas for graduate study at the University of Stockholm.  Pierpoint joined CBS shortly after in 1949. He had gone to Finland on a school break when a Communist uprising broke out, and was asked to report on the news as a stringer. He was then invited to continue on as a stringer in Stockholm, where he had a chance encounter with Edward R. Murrow that led to his role at CBS. After covering the Nobel prizes, Pierpoint was contacted by Murrow from New York who asked for copy of William Faulkner's speech accepting the prize in literature. This contact led to an offer of a correspondent job, which he took in 1951. Murrow then sent him to Tokyo, where he was when the conflict in Korea broke out. Pierpoint is survived by his wife of 52 years, Patricia; a sister, Ruth Hogg; four children (Marta, Kim, Stanley and Eric, a film and television actor); and five grandchildren.
   
• Poats, Rutherford - United Press correspondent.  At that time communications were difficult and correspondents' reports had to be flown back to Tokyo.  Poats tried to use messenger pigeons to take his dispatches to Tokyo, but it took eleven days for the pigeons to arrive.
   
• Poore, Cpl. Werner - combat moview photographer
   
• Potter, Philip - first Baltimore Sun correspondent (and bureau chief) to reach the Korean War zone, he was wounded in the leg by enemy gunfire.
   
• Praytor, Frank - Joined the USMC in 1950.  Served as a combat correspondent for the First Marine Division 1951-52.  Transferred to Stars & Stripes 1952-54.  Ended his enlistment as a staff sergeant.  Prior to working for Stars & Stripes he was a reporter for the International News Service.  He died January 10, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  A 1952 photograph of Praytor feeding an orphaned kitten with a medicine dropper made the news throughout the USA during the Korean War.
   
• Price, Bem - Associated Press reporter
   
• Pringle, James - Associated Press photographer
   
• Prosser, Robert - correspondent for Newsweek. Between 1952 and 1955 he reported intermittently from Korea for the Associated Press. Following his Korean work he was a founder of the Okinawa Morning Star along with Bob Vermillion. He was its editor for the following 20 years.
   
• Randolph, John - This Associated Press reporter was also the recipient of a Silver Star in the Korean War.
   
• Raymond, Allen - Correspondent with New York Herald Tribune
   
• Rich, John - War correspondent for NBC News for nearly 30 years.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Richards, Ray - International News Service correspondent.  Killed in Korea.  See Short Bio section.
   
• Roberts, Cletus Enoch "Clete" Haase - "Clete Haase was the 2nd of two sons born in Oregon to Charles J. and Genevieve (Schultz) Haase. His parents divorced in 1923 when he was 11 years old. His mother remarried 6 months later to Arthur Lee Roberts. This new family moved to Washington state and the mother changed their name to Roberts, even though the sons kept a relationship with their birth father, Charles Haase. Clete graduated from college in Washington state; married and had two children. Clete Roberts was a pioneer in Los Angeles local broadcast journalism. After serving as a war correspondent in World War II and Korea, Clete Roberts settled in the Los Angeles area and became a respected TV news reporter, part of the innovative "Big News" local TV news concept, in 1960 at CBS television in Hollywood, which pioneered the hour-long local news program - along with colleagues Jerry Dunphy, Bill Stout, Maury Greene, Ralph Story and Bill Keene. He also carried his polish and expertise on to the silver screen, and TV drama as well, most notably in the episodes of "M*A*S*H" (1972), in which he portrayed, of all things, a war correspondent. Known for his calm delivery style and the sign-off, "I thank you (bowing slightly)...I bid you good evening.". Clete was an Emmy Award nominee for BEST NEWS PROGRAM (KLAC) - 1951, and an accomplished pilot. Clete died at the age of 73 years from heart and lung failure. He had suffered an aneurysm and underwent brain surgery. The aneurysm moved, pressed against his respiratory nerve, causing him to stop breathing and suffer a heart attack. - Bio created by: Debby Haase McLean
   
• Rosecrans, Charles D. Jr. 20-year old International News photo cameraman and reporter from Honolulu.  He was killed in the same crash as Frank Emery.  He had returned to Tokyo for a break from Korea on August 31st.
   
• Russell, Bill - US Army correspondent, Korea 1951-53
   
• Sack, Pfc. John - While attending college at Harvard, Sack wrote for the Harvard magazine, Crimson.  After graduation he enlisted in the Army and volunteered for Korea because he had specialty as a public information writer.  He covered the western front in Korea for about a half a year in 1953.  During an interview with American writers by Eric James Schroeder in 1992, Sack said, "What I liked about writing was being out in the field, being out in the cold, driving a jeep, going back and forth on the road from Seoul to the front, jumping into shell holes and foxholes and bunkers, and 10 percent of the time sitting down at the typewriter and knocking off the story."  See also James Stewart's biography of John Sack in the Dictionary of Literary Biography online.
   
• Schumach, Murray - Correspondent for New York Times
   
• Schumack, Ray - Army correspondent.  He currently as a book, News Dispatches from the Korean War, available on Amazon.
   
• Scott, Ed - CBS newsman who worked with Edward R. Murrow on CBS's "See It Now - Christmas in Korea"
   
• Selko, Cpl. Harry - 25th Division's combat correspondent with the 35th RCT in June of 1951
   
• Sheehan, MSgt. J.P. - Marine combat correspondent
   
• Silverstein, Shel - famed poet, children's book author, composer.  Born in Chicago in 1932, Shel Silverstein died May 10, 1999 at the age of 68.  He was drafted into the Army in 1953 and signed up for the infantry.  He was on his way to Korea when he got an interview with Stars & Stripes.  He was hired as a map maker and layout man, but became one of the newspaper's most well-known (and controversial) cartoonists.  After discharge in 1955, Shel Silverstein got a job as a staff cartoonist for Playboy magazine in 1956.  He contributed to Playboy until 1998.  He was the author of numerous children's books and became a poet.  He was also a composer, particularly of country western songs.  He wrote the lyrics to Johnny Cash's hit song, A Boy Named Sue.  He authored The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Missing Piece, and The Light in the Attic, among numerous other books.
   
• Simmons, Stephen - War correspondent who was killed in the same airplane crash as James O. Supple on July 27, 1950.
   
• Simmons, Walter - Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune
   
• Sparks, Fred - Chicago Daily News correspondent and front line reporter who carried a weapon.  He justified carrying it by saying, "Suppose a gook suddenly jumps into my foxhole.  What do I do then?  Say to him, Chicago Daily News?"
   
• Stone, Thomas Jefferson - AP correspondent in the Korean War & the first war correspondent to reach the Yalu River.  After Korea he went on the Middle East and was in Cairo in 1952 during the uprising.
   
• Sullivan, Walter Seager Jr. - Science news editor of New York Times 1962.  Science editor 1964.  Retired from the Times in 1987.  Born January 18, 1918, Sullivan joined the Navy at the start of World War II.  He then became a foreign correspondent in China, Korea, and Berlin.  He died March 19, 1996.
   
• Summerlin, Sam - Associated Press correspondent.  He died at the age of 89.  "Summerlin was born on New Year’s Day, 1928, in Chapel Hill, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and joined the Associated Press in 1949. Two years later, he was sent to cover the Korean War, where at 23 he was one of the youngest war correspondents in Asia. When the two Koreas signed an armistice ending the fighting on July 27, 1953, Summerlin was the first to report it. That was in large part, he said, because he weighed only 125 pounds and could outrun the other 200 or so reporters to the only telephone available at the signing ceremony in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.  He was given just 15 seconds to dictate his report, so he recalled simply saying, “Flash: The Korean War is Over,” before handing the old-fashioned crank phone back to a military official.... Summerlin’s wife, Cynthia, died in 2000. In addition to his daughter, Claire Slattery, Summerlin is survived by his son, Thomas A. Summerlin, and three grandchildren." [Source of text in quotes: Associated Press, 2017]
   
• Supple, James O. - Chicago Sun Times war correspondent.  Died July 27, 1950 with 25 others when the military plane carrying him to Korea crashed off the coast of Japan.  Supple was a well-known religious writer who campaigned for an end to religious and racial prejudice.
   
• Sweers, George - Associated Press photographer
   
• Swinton, Stan - Associated Press reporter
   
• Tartaro, Joseph P.
   
• Thomas, Cpl. Robert W. - Combat photographer from Coschoten, Ohio
   
• Tress, Irwin - International News Service photographer
   
• Varcarcel, Emilio Diaz -  Emilio Diaz Varcarcel (1929-2015), one of the most prolific Puerto Rican writers from the so-called "Generation of 1945," worked as a reporter for a local magazine (Presente) when drafted by the Army to serve in the all-Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment (1951). His experience as war correspondent left a lasting impression in his literary work, mainly concerned in social and political changes.  Don Emilio passed in February 2015.
   
• Vermilion, Robert - World War II and Korean War Combat correspondent.  "Robert Vermillion, combat correspondent for United Press International during World War II and the Korean conflict, has died of complications arising from diabetes, his wife said. He was 72. Mr. Vermillion, who jumped with British and American paratroopers during his years as a war correspondent, had moved to Sun City in 1978 after a 20-year career at Newsweek magazine, his wife, Betty, said. He died Saturday. [1987] Mr. Vermillion joined United Press in Philadelphia during the Depression years. He was working in New York City when World War II broke out and was dispatched overseas, where he covered front-line combat in Italy and Africa. He was in Greece when Allied troops liberated the country in 1944, and lived in the Mediterranean country for a year covering the guerrilla war waged by communist insurgents. After serving as UPI bureau chief in Miami, Mr. Vermillion was assigned to report from Korea when communist forces invaded the south in 1950.
  Mr. Vermillion left UPI in 1954 when he and his wife founded their own newspaper, the Okinawa Morning Sun, on the Japanese island. The couple sold the newspaper three years later and returned to the United States, where Mr. Vermillion took a job as a general editor for Newsweek.
  In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, Robert." [Source: United Press International, May 4, 1987]
   
• Walker, Gordon - war correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor
   
• Waln, Nora - Saturday Evening Post war correspondent.  Wounded in action. See Short Bio section.
   
• Ward, John T. - Photographer for the Baltimore Sun
   
• Watson, Earl - long-time racetrack public relations man. When the Korean War broke out Watson became an Army clerk typist on Okinawa.  He was reassigned to the public information office there, filing stories with the Pacific edition of Stars & Stripes.  Later in life he authored the book, Me and My Trusty Typewriter: A Journalist's Journey Through Life.
   
• Webb, Peter - United Press correspondent who was later suspended from working in Korea because of his report of the death of Gen. Walton H. Walker. 
   
• Wershba, Joseph - CBS newsman who worked with Edward R. Murrow on CBS's "See It Now - Christmas in Korea"
   
• Wick, Cpl. Joe - Combat correspondent
   
• Williams, Cpl. Bruce L.
   
• Wilson, Charles B. - Columbus (Ohio) State Journal war correspondent.  Wounded in action.

Short Biographies of War Correspondents

Benedict, Howard

Howard Benedict, a former Associated Press aerospace writer, served as the executive director of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation for 14 years, an organization of more than 30 former astronauts which raises money for college science and engineering students. He retired from the foundation’s staff in 2004 but continued to serve on its board of directors until he passed in 2005. Through 2002 the foundation had awarded more than $1.5 million in scholarships. It is located in the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., just outside a gate to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Before joining the foundation in 1990, Benedict was senior aerospace writer for The Associated Press for 31 of the 37 years he worked for the wire service. He covered more than 2,000 missile and rocket launches and wrote the main story on the first 65 U.S. human space flights - from Alan Shepard's pioneering flight in 1961 to the 34th space shuttle mission in 1990. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including two as the top AP writer of the year, in 1969 for his coverage of the Apollo moon missions and in 1986 for his reports on the space shuttle Challenger explosion. He twice received the National Space Club's Media Award, in 1972 and 1990, and he has received 12 awards from the Aviation/Space Writers Association.

While with the AP, Benedict spent two years as a White House correspondent, from 1975-77 during the presidency of Gerald Ford. This was during a lull in the space program.

Benedict has written three books about space: "NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Achievement," published in 1984; "NASA, The Journey Continues," in 1990, and "At Home in Space," in 1995. He was co-author, with astronauts Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, and NBC's Jay Barbree, of the 1994 best-seller, "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon". The book spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, reaching as high as No. 3. The book was made into a four-hour documentary by TBS.

Benedict was born April 23, 1928, in Sioux City, Iowa, and earned his journalism wings working with the Sioux City Journal as an intern during his high school and college years. After high school, he served in the U.S. Army for two years, 1946-48, and during part of that period he wrote for the base newspaper in Camp Lee, Virginia. In 1949, he enrolled in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and worked on the school newspaper. When the Korean War started in June 1950, Benedict was recalled into the Army as a reservist. Because of his newspaper background he was assigned to the military newspaper, Stars & Stripes, based in Tokyo, Japan.

He was assigned to cover the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur until MacArthur was relieved by President Harry Truman in May, 1951. Then he was assigned as a Stars & Stripes war correspondent, writing about the Korean war and then covering the Panmunjom peace talks that eventually led to a truce. With the peace talks underway, Benedict and other reservists were released, and in January, 1952, he returned to Northwestern, which he left a year later to join The Associated Press - with assignments in Salt Lake City and New York City before being named Cape Canaveral correspondent in 1959.

Bourke-White, Margaret

Born June 14, 1904 in New York, New York, Margaret White attended Columbia University, University of Michigan, Western Reserve University and Cornell University.  She began her career as an industrial and architectural photographer in 1927 and in 1929 was hired by Fortune magazine.  She became one of the first four staff photographers for Life magazine in 1936.  She covered World War II for Life and became the first woman photographer attached to the United States Armed Forces.

During the Korean War she worked as war correspondent and traveled with South Korean troops.  She was stricken with Parkinson disease in 1952, but continued to photograph and write, retiring from Life magazine in 1969.  She died August 27, 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Browne, Malcolm

Malcolm Browne was born April 17, 1931 in New York City.  He was drafted during the Korean War and spent two years working for Pacific Stars & Stripes.  After discharge he worked for various newspapers, joining the New York Times in 1968.  He worked for The Times on and off from then through the Persian Gulf War in 1991.  While working for the Associated Press in 1964, his reporting from Vietnam won him a Pulitzer Prize.

Before becoming a journalist he worked as a chemist.  In 1977 he became a science writer, serving as senior editor for Discover magazine.  He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and photographer who died August 27, 2012.

Cannon, James Monroe III

Born James Myron Cannon in Sylacauga, Alabama, he changed his middle name to his father's in 1939.  He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and held assignments in Africa, Italy, the Middle East, India, China and Southeast Asia. He was discharged in 1946 with the rank of captain. He was employed by the Baltimore Sun in 1949 and requested to be sent to cover the Korean War when it broke out in 1950.  He spent 18 months in Korea covering such actions as the American troop withdrawal from the Yalu River.  He was wounded in action.  He left the Sun in 1954 and worked briefly for Time Magazine before taking a job with Newsweek.  He later became an aide to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1969, served as assistant for domestic affairs to President Gerald Ford in 1975, was chief of staff to Senator Howard H. Baker of Tennessee, and became an aide to President Ronald Reagan.  James Cannon died on September 15, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 93.

Colton, William J. "Sandy"

[Obituary found in Stars & Stripes, December 28, 2008.]

Former Stripes chief photographer, war correspondent
Sandy Colton dies at 83

William J. "Sandy" Colton, a Stars and Stripes Korean War correspondent and later the chief photographer of the paper's Pacific edition, died Christmas Day 2008 after a long battle with cancer.

He was born in Johnstown, New York, October 5, 1925, son of the late Charles Sands, Sr., and Mary Adamovich Sands. He was later adopted by the late Dr. Sidney J. Colton of Johnstown.

Colton attended St. Patrick's, Knox Junior High, and Johnstown High School, Crockett High School in Crockett, Texas, and graduated from Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1944. He later briefly attended the University of Louisville.

Colton had a distinguished career as a writer, photographer, editor and historian. While an enlisted man in the Air Force, he wrote the initial history of what was later to become the Air Force Research and Development Command, for which he was later offered but declined a commission as an Air Force historian. At that time he was in Korea as a feature writer for Stars and Stripes, "having too much fun covering the war" to accept. He later became Stripes' chief photographer, and traveled extensively throughout the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East as a writer-photographer before returning to the U.S. in 1961.

He served as picture editor of the Washington, D.C,, Star newspaper during the Kennedy and Johnson years, and went on to hold various editing positions with the Associated Press in New York, where he served as picture editor for a number of books published by the AP, designed a color slide service for television that is still in use today, supervised the transition from black-and-white to color photography for AP photographers, designed and equipped new universal color darkrooms for AP photo bureaus in the U.S., participated in various photographic research and development projects, and kept AP photographers equipped with the latest photographic equipment and films.

Colton supervised and photographed a number of major stories, including the early space shuttle launches. He also photographed, produced and presented multi-screen slide shows about new technologies used by the AP, as well as informational shows about various parts of the country for AP Publishers and Managing Editor’s meetings. He retired in 1984 as AP’s director of photography and photography columnist for AP Newsfeatures.

Colton was the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the J. Winton Lemon Award from the National Press Photographers Association for "outstanding technical achievements and years of service to the profession," as well as awards from the New York Press Photographers Association, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Kodak and Ilford, among others.

Colton was a Life member of the National Press Photographer’s Association and the White House News Photographers Association, past member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, New York Photographic Administrators, the Circle of Confusion, and honorary member of the University of Missouri’s Kappa Alpha Mu photojournalism fraternity and the Order of Kentucky Colonels. Locally, he belonged to the Bleecker Fish and Game Club and Gloversville’s American Legion, Post 137.

After retirement, Colton continued to work with young photojournalists as an active member of the Eddie Adams Workshop, an annual free workshop for one hundred young photojournalists from around the world. He was presented the first of what has become an annual award at the workshop, the Eddie Adams Award, named for the now-deceased Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who began the workshop in 1988 with a number of friends who volunteer their time and expertise. Colton was a close friend of Adams, and served as an instructor and staff member at the workshop since its beginning.

Colton, who retired to a log cabin he and his wife built with friends in Bleecker, claimed that his greatest achievement is to be known to young professional photographers today as the "father of Jay and Jimmy Colton!"

He is survived by his loving wife, Irene, of Bleecker, and two sons by a previous marriage to Sanae Yamazaki: Jay Colton, retired associate picture editor at Time magazine, who lives with his wife Moira and son Christopher in Manhattan, and James Colton, picture editor of Sports Illustrated, who lives in North Massapequa on Long Island with his wife Catherine and sons Shane and Ken. A sister, Patricia Knight, lives in Mira Loma California. There are also numerous nieces and nephews.

Colton was predeceased by three brothers, Robert and Thomas Sands of Johnstown and Charles Sands Jr., of Glen Arm, Maryland.

Viewing will be at Barter & Donnan Funeral Home, Johnstown, N.Y., Friday January 2nd, from 6 to 8 p.m. A funeral Mass will be held on Saturday January 3rd at 11:00 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church (where he was once an altar boy) in Johnstown, N.Y.  In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Eddie Adams Workshop or the Stars and Stripes Museum and Library.

Duncan, David Douglas

Born January 23, 1916 in Kansas City, Missouri, David Douglas Duncan joined the Marine Corps after Pearl Harbor.  He was a combat photographer in World War II while serving in the USMC, and was a civilian photographer on the front lines during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  He served as a combat photographer for the Marines from 1943 to 1946, and was honorably discharged on February 1, 1946.  He was the recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds received in action in the South Pacific.  He was hired as a staff photographer for Life Magazine soon after discharge in 1946, and held that position for many years. Among his most famous combat photographs were those taken during the Korean War, many of which were compiled into a book entitled, This is War!.  Proceeds of the book went to the widows and children of Marines who were killed in the Korean War.  Duncan is also known for his outstanding photographs of Pablo Picasso.

Green, Michael J.

Michael J. Greene was born on April 7, 1928 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1945. He then enrolled at the University of Notre Dame and earned a bachelor of arts degree in English in 1949. From September 1949 until March 1950, he attended graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. He was inducted into the Army in January 1951 and served as a "Stars and Stripes" reporter with the 7th Division in Korea. He was discharged in October 1952, and ran a small business in Florida for a year. He joined a Catholic newspaper in Kentucky, the "Louisville Record", as assistant editor in October 1953. He stayed with the "Record" until 1958, when he became associate editor of the "Baltimore Catholic Review".

In 1959, Greene moved to Kansas City to accept the position of managing editor with the diocesan newspaper "Catholic Reporter". He worked closely with editor Robert Hoyt and executive editor Fr. Vincent Lovett. The "Reporter" attracted readership from outside the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese, and the staff considered expansion into a national paper. In 1964, Greene suggested the idea to John Fallon, who recruited Frank Brennan as a fundraiser. Greene, Fallon, and the rest of the group approached Bishop Charles Helmsing, who approved the project and permitted the new paper to share facilities and staff with the diocesan "Catholic Reporter". The first issue of the "National Catholic Reporter" was published on October 28,1964. Greene was publisher of the "NCR" while remaining managing editor of the diocesan "Reporter". For the national paper, his responsibilities included promotion of subscription sales and financial management. He resigned from the "NCR" in September 1965, having a personality conflict with "NCR" editor Hoyt. He was succeeded as "NCR" publisher by Donald J. Thorman. For his work with the diocesan "Catholic Reporter", Greene received a Best News Story award from the Catholic Press Association in 1964.

[KWE: Source - Notre Dame Archives.  Green died December 30, 2012.]

Higgins, Marguerite

Born in Hong Kong on September 3, 1920, Higgins was educated at the University of California, from which she graduated in 1941.  She received a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.  In 1942 she was hired by the New York Tribune and 1944 she became a war correspondent in Europe.  She covered the Nuremberg Trials.

She was a war correspondent in Korea from June through December 1950 and covered the Inchon landing in the 5th wave at Red Beach.  In 1951 she published the book, War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent.  That same year she won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and was voted Woman of the Year by the Associated Press news organization.

She covered news stories in Vietnam in 1953, the Soviet Union in 1955, and then made repeated trips to Vietnam.  Her book, Our Vietnam Nightmare, was published in 1965.  She was in Vietnam in 1965 when she came down with the tropical disease leishmanasis.  She returned to the United States for recovery but died on January 3, 1966.  In honor of her career as a war correspondent, she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Marks, Lester A.

Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Marks enlisted in the Army in 1937.  During World War II he served with the 550th Airborne Battalion in Sicily, Italy, and southern France.  He was twice wounded and received a Silver Star for gallantry in action.  He was taken Prisoner of War during the Battle of the Bulge.

After his World War II service he was discharged and studied motion picture TTC photography.  He then reenlisted in the Army in the late 1940s just in time to see action in the Korean War as a photographer with the 71st Signal Service Battalion.  He was the first Army photographer to parachute into Korea with the 187th RCT and received two Bronze Stars for heroic actions in Korea.

After Korea he joined the Army Pictorial Center at the Astoria Studios on Long Island, New York.  In 1953 Master Sergeant Marks was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary short subject for Operation Blue Jay (Greenland icecap).  He was also cameraman for numerous films aired on the Army's national broadcast television program, "The Big Picture".

He retired from active duty in 1960 but stayed with the Army Pictorial Service until it closed in 1970.  He was transferred to Aberdeen Proving Ground as a scientific and technical cameraman, and retired from there in 1992.  In addition to his career in photography he was a long distance cyclist.  He died May 16, 1997.

Mauldin, William Henry "Bill"

Born October 29, 1921 near Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bill Mauldin took up political cartooning at the age of 17 years.  In 1940 he joined the Army and served as a rifleman iin the 180th Infantry, 45th Division.  He was transferred to Stars & Stripes in 1944.  He created the renowned characters "Willie and Joe", receiving his first Pulitzer Prize as a result.  At age 23 he was the youngest Pulitzer Prize recipient in history.  Following World War II he wrote articles and books, starred in Hollywood movies such as Red Badge of Courage, and ran for Congress.

During the Korean War he was a war correspondent for Collier's magazine.  He revived "Willie and Joe", making Joe a war correspondent in Korea writing home to Willie stateside.  He earned his second Pulitzer Prize in 1959, and then moved to the Chicago Sun Times in 1962 where his cartoons were syndicated.  He retired from cartooning in 1991 due to health reasons and died January 22, 2003.  He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Noel, Frank E. "Pappy"

Born February 12, 1905 in Dalhart, Texas, he served in the Army Air Corps as an aerial photography instructor.  He then worked for the Associated Press in the Pacific Theater during World War II.  "Noel volunteered to cover the Korean War and accompanied the 7th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division. On his way to Chosin Reservoir, he was trapped with a marine unit by enemy forces, but they fought their way free. Two months later, on November 29, 1950, after a convoy was trapped near the reservoir, he went for help in a jeep but was intercepted and captured by enemy forces. He spent the next 32 months in communist prison camps. He unsuccessfully attempted to escape three times, once only failing because he wouldn't leave behind an ill fellow prisoner. He was even able to take exclusive pictures for the AP from inside the camps. Noel was freed in 1953 as a result of Operation Big Switch."  Frank Noel died in Gainesville, Florida on November 29, 1966.

Park, Sarah

Born on June 22, 1927 in Honolulu to Choonha and Shinbok Park, Sarah was a Korean-American journalist.  She studied at American University in Washington, D.C. and the University of Hawaii and then began living and writing in Asia for the International News Service and Reuters agency of Great Britain.  She was hired by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 1950 and then sent to cover the Korean War from the winter of 1952 through spring 1953.  "Park reported that it was necessary for troops to use candles in areas around the frontline, as there was no electricity at that time. From this report, Hawaiian residents started a campaign, 'Candles for Korea' which saw approximately 150,000 candles sent to troops to boost morale." In January 1953 she was made an honorary member of the 7th Division and later Col. Arthur B. Chun wrote to the Star-Bulletin, “Undaunted and without flinching, she stood side-by-side with men of the 3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, all under intense fire from the enemy on the Korean frontier. She walked their trails, their trenches, their rugged hills and witnessed their agonizing, perilous moments. She was more than a war correspondent or an observer: she was the understanding ‘buddy’ from home who appreciated everything anyone did.” Sarah Park died at the age of 30 when the small plane she was aboard crashed into the Pacific Ocean on March 9, 1957 while covering a tsunami warning.  Also killed was Paul Beam, owner of the plane, who died the next day.  Surviving the crash was photographer Jack Matsumoto.  Sarah Park is buried at Diamond Head Memorial Park in Oahu next to her mother.

Pierce, Dr. Robert Willard "Bob"

Humanitarian Robert “Bob” Pierce was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1914. He moved with his family to southern California in the mid-1920s. He attended Pasadena Nazarene College and studied for the ministry. From 1937 to 1940 he spent time traveling across California working as an evangelist. In 1940 he was ordained into the Baptist ministry and soon thereafter he became involved with the Los Angeles branch of the World War II-era “Youth for Christ” (YFC) movement.  In response to the horrific needs of Korean refugees and war orphans, Dr. Pierce founded the international Christian aid organization, World Vision and later Samaritan’s Purse. The stories he shared from the Korean battle front were released regularly by the UPA and used in major publications. They also laid the foundations for what is now the largest child sponsorship program in the world. Dr. Pierce was also a prolific movie maker and his movie, The 38th Parallel, is considered one of the most historically accurate and significant in existence because he was in Korea two months before the war broke out and then went back immediately to get more footage after it erupted…returning to places that were now nothing but burning cinders.  He was the subject of the book, Bob Pierce: This Thing I Do, by Franklin Graham with Jeanette Lockerbie.  Dr. Pierce died in 1978 of leukemia.

Rich, John

Born in Maine and graduate of Bowdoin College, John Rich joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and made four D-day landings in the Pacific Theater.  After discharge he worked for NBC.  During the Korean War, Rich arrived in Korea less than a week after the war broke out and stayed there for three years.  He covered the ceasefire talks on NBC's The Today Show and in 2010 released a book entitled, Korean War in Color: A Correspondent's Retrospective on a Forgotten War.  The book includes 173 color photographs that Rich took in Korea with his Nikon camera.  John Rich is a Peabody Award winner who lives in Maine.  He was the only war correspondent to photograph the Korean War in color film.

Richards, Ray

Ray Richards was born in Minot, North Dakota, and was educated at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri.  He began his journalism career in 1910 as a reporter on the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Daily World.  He later worked in Montana, Colorado, Honolulu, California, and Washington, D.C. before assignment to Korea.

He became assistant city editor of the Denver Post and city editor of the Morning Post in 1927 and 1928.  In Los Angeles he was with the Examiner and the Associated Press, and in Honolulu he was on the staff of the Star-Bulletin for four years.

Richards returned to the United States from the Far East in 1941 and rejoined the staff of the Examiner.  A year later he was appointed Washington correspondent for the newspaper.  He also served the Milwaukee Sentinel's Washington Bureau.

He returned to the Far East in 1949 and joined the International News Service at the outbreak of the Communist invasion of South Korea.  In the first days of the fighting he obtained the first dramatic accounts of the invasion's progress by flying low over the battle lines.

Information about his death appeared in the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper on July 12, 1950 in the form of the following news article written by fellow war correspondent John Rich, under the title, "Ray Richards Loses Life in Korea":

Ray Richards Loses Life in Korea

"Korea Advance U.S. Headquarters, July 11, 1950 (INS) - A frontline officer reported to U.S. Field Headquarters in Korea Tuesday night that two American war correspondents were killed in Monday's fighting--the first newsmen to lose their lives in the Korean conflict.  They were presumed to be INS reporter Ray Richards, special war correspondent out of the Washington Bureau of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and the other Hearst papers and corp Ernie Peeler of the Army newspaper, Pacific Stars & Stripes.

A dispatch to headquarters from regimental adjutant Captain Downey told of two correspondents being killed but did not identify them.  His dispatch was believed to confirm earlier reports the Army received that Richards and Peeler were victims of a Communist assault that overran an American front line outpost they were visiting to obtain eyewitness descriptions of the fighting.

Captain Downey reported that American troops were not able to recover the bodies of the two correspondents because, "things are still awfully hot up there."

Richards, 36, was last heard from Sunday night after going to the front to view wreckage of enemy tanks smashed in an American air raid along the Chonan-Taejon road.  His last dispatch filed Sunday just before he returned to the front gave eyewitness descriptions of the famed American "Lost Battalion" which fought its way through encircling Red forces north of Chonan to rejoin its regiment.

Homer Bigart, war correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, was the only newsman to survive the Communist onslaught.  In a July 10 copyrighted dispatch to his newspaper, he wrote, "Richards, Peeler and I were the only newsmen on hand when a Communist force almost trapped an American force in a forward position.  The Americans avoided annihilation only by great luck and managed to withdraw, but at the cost of severe casualties and all their heavy equipment.  Not until late today (Monday) was it established that Richards and Peeler were dead.  I saw them last night (Sunday) down the road.  They told me they intended to spend the night there, hoping to get a jeep ride back to headquarters to file their stories of the coming battle."

Vermillion, Robert

May 04, 1987|By United Press International - Robert Vermillion, combat correspondent for United Press International during World War II and the Korean conflict, has died of complications arising from diabetes, his wife said. He was 72. Mr. Vermillion, who jumped with British and American paratroopers during his years as a war correspondent, had moved to Sun City (California) in 1978 after a 20-year career at Newsweek magazine, his wife, Betty, said. He died Saturday.

Mr. Vermillion joined United Press in Philadelphia during the Depression years. He was working in New York City when World War II broke out and was dispatched overseas, where he covered front-line combat in Italy and Africa. He was in Greece when Allied troops liberated the country in 1944, and lived in the Mediterranean country for a year covering the guerrilla war waged by communist insurgents.

After serving as UPI bureau chief in Miami, Mr. Vermillion was assigned to report from Korea when communist forces invaded the south in 1950. Mr. Vermillion left UPI in 1954 when he and his wife founded their own newspaper, the Okinawa Morning Star, on the Japanese island. The couple sold the newspaper three years later and returned to the United States, where Mr. Vermillion took a job as a general editor for Newsweek.  When the Okinawa Morning Star was founded it was edited by Bob Prosser and Bob Vermillion and published by John Servaites and Edward Kennedy.

Waln, Nora

Born in 1895, Nora Waln was a female correspondent who covered General Patton's Army during World War II.  She also served as a correspondent in Communist China and Mongolia.  In Korea she was a front-line correspondent who was on the Manchurian border when the Chinese communists began their attack.  She narrowly escaped.  She was a correspondent for Saturday Evening Post and Atlantic Monthly.  After the war she gave talks about her experiences on the lecture circuit.  She died September 27, 1964.

Foreign War Correspondents

• Aquino, Benigno "Ninoy" Jr. - International correspondent for Manila Times from the Philippines
   
• Berk, Aladdin - Turkish journalist
   
• Pierre Berton, Pierre - Canadian war correspondent
   
• Boss, Gerald William Ramaut "Bill" - Leading Canadian correspondent for the Canadian Press.  He covered the actions of the Princess Pat's Canadian Light Infantry and every major battle in the Korean War in which Canadians were involved, including the Battle of Kapyong, Battle of Chuam-ni and Battle of Maehwa-San.
   
• Brooks, Sydney - British correspondent for Reuters
   
• Brown, Lloyd - Australian photographer with the Sun News Pictorial
   
• Buckley, Christopher - British correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.  World War II correspondent who then went to Korea to cover the war there.  Buckley was killed in a jeep/land mine accident that also killed fellow Brit Ian Morrison on August 12, 1950.  Also killed in the accident was Col. Unmi Nayar, a former Indian army public relations officer during World War II who was in Korea as India's representative on the United Nations Commission.  Buckley was soon to retire as a war correspondent, but he died in a hospital soon after the jeep accident.  Nayar was killed instantly.  Buckley was 45 years old.
   
• Burchett, Wilfred Graham - Correspondent with Ce Soir, a Paris left-wing newspaper.  During the 1940s he worked as a correspondent for the British Daily Express, covering the Sinio-Japanese War and Burma campaign. Burchett went to China in 1951 to gather material for a book.  When the peace talks in Korea began, Ce Soir asked him to go to Korea to cover them.  He was supposed to be in Korea for three weeks, but he stayed there two and a half years.  He supported the Communist side of the war.
   
• Cameron, James - British war correspondent of the Picture Post.  Cameron was a pacifist who believed that nothing justified war.  He witnessed and reported on the South Korean authorities' brutal treatment of political prisoners.  When his writing was censored, he resigned from the magazine.
   
• Colless, John - an Australian who worked for AAP-Reuter. After complaining to Reuter that hi atrocity stories were not being published, Colless was recalled to Japan and not permitted to return to Korea until the end of the war.
   
• Courtenay, William -
   
• Crane, Lionel - Correspondent for the London Daily Express who covered the Inchon Landing in the fifth wave to hit Red Beach.
   
• Cutforth, Rene - BBC special correspondent to Korea from the beginning of December 1950 until the end of July 1951.  His depictions of the American use of napalm and saturation bombs were forbidden to be aired on the BBC.
   
• Dower, Alan - British correspondent with the Melbourne Herald who was reported to have successfully stopped the senseless killing of 200 women and children by threatening to make the story public if the atrocities weren't stopped.  Dower was a commando captain in Timor during World War II.
   
• Gigantes, Philippe - British correspondent for the London Observer.  Taken prisoner of war while covering the war in Korea for the International News Service.  After he was repatriated he wrote the book, I Was a Captive in Korea.
   
• Glassop, Lawson - Australian correspondent
   
• Gordon, Harry - Australian correspondent with the Sun News Pictorial of Melbourne, wrote about the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment.
   
• Graham, William H. - Killed in Korea while serving as a war correspondent
   
• Guillain, Robert - Correspondent for Le Monde
   
• Han, Kyu-Ho - A correspondent with Seoul Shinmun, he was killed June 29, 1950 while covering front-line action with South Korean army units.
   
• Hardy, Bert - British photographer for the Picture Post who worked with correspondent James Cameron to expose the brutality of South Korean authorities toward political prisoners.
   
• Macartney, Roy - Australian war correspondent working for Reuters
   
• Macswan, Norman - Correspondent with AAP-Reuter
   
• Mata, Nestor - Filipino journalist (1926-2018) who was a Korean War correspondent for the Philippine Herald newspaper.
   
• Meray, Tibor - This Hungarian journalist (1924-2020) was a Korean War correspondent for Szabad Nép (official daily of the ruling communist Hungarian Working People's Party and predecessor of the Népszabadság) during the Korean War.
   
• McDonald, Lachie - Australian correspondent, London Daily News
   
• Monson, Ronald - Australian correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald
   
• Morrison, Ian - British correspondent with The Times.  Morrison was a World War II correspondent who then went to Korea to cover the war there.  While covering the war in the South Pacific during World War II, Morrison contracted dengue fever, tropical ulcers, amoebic dysentery, and recurrent malaria.  He had also been in two plane crashes and was wounded twice.  He was based in Singapore when the Korean War broke out.  On August 12, 1950, the jeep in which he and two others were riding hit a land mine and blew up.  He was killed instantly.  He was 37 years old.
   
• O'Donovan, Patrick - Correspondent with the Observer
   
• O'Neil, Norm - Turkish journalist
   
• Page, Cyril - British cameraman with the BBC
   
• Pearcy, Derek - Only Australian correspondent killed in Korea.  He died when he was killed by a landmine while corresponding for Reuters.
   
• Philomenko, Maximilen - Correspondent for the French Press, he was killed in a plane crash on July 27, 1950 en route to Korea.
   
• de Premonville, Jean-Marie  - Correspondent for the French Press, he was sent to Korea to take Maximilen Philomenko's place.  He was killed July 12, 1951.  See also Reference section for book he co-authored about the Korean War.
   
• Mata, Nestor - Filipino journalist that covered the Korean War for the Philippine Herald.
   
• Ramsden, Mike - Australian correspondent for AAP-Reuters
   
• Shea, Laurie - Australian photographer with the Sydney Sun
   
• Shinn, Bill - a Korean-born Associated Press correspondent who was denied any further use of the military telephone between Korea and Tokyo when he by-passed official military channels to break the story of the Inchon Invasion.
   
• Smith, Bill - Correspondent for the London Daily Express
   
• Smythe, J.F. (Jim) - Correspondent for the Sydney Daily Mirror.  Left Korea in 1953.
   
• Telfer, Desmond - Australian correspondent (broadcaster)
   
• Thompson, Reginald - British correspondent for the Daily Telegraph
   
• Ulm, John - Australian correspondent for AAP-Reuters
   
• Villasanta, Johnny - one of the first Filipinio war correspondents to arrive in Korea and the one that stayed there the longest.
   
• Walker, David - Correspondent with the London Daily Mirror who was with Peter Webb of the United Press when they overheard a surgeon tell a group of officers about Gen. Walton Walker's death.
   
• Warner, Denis - Australian war correspondent for Melbourne Herald and London Daily Telegraph who had served as a war correspondent in World War II.  He was with the Americans from the first day they were in action.
   
• White, Warren - A correspondent in demand with his colleagues because he could speak several languages, including Japanese.
   
• Winnington, Alan - Correspondent with the London Daily Worker, he supported the Communist side of the war in Korea.  He was a long-time member of the Communist party and had been working for the London Daily Worker since the early 1940s.

Correspondents Killed in Action in Korea

There were 17 war correspondents killed in action during the Korean War.

• Buckley, Christopher
• Emery, Frank
• Fielder, Wilson
• Graham, William H.
• Han, Kyu-Ho
• Hinton, Albert L.
• Inouye, Ken
• Moore, William R.
• Morrison, Ian
• Pearcy, Derek A.G.
• Peeler, Ernie
• Philomenko, Maximilen
• de Premonville, Jean-Marie
• Richards, Ray
• Rosecrans, Charles D. Jr.
• Simmons, Stephen
• Supple, James O.

Buckley, Christopher

British correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.  World War II correspondent who then went to Korea to cover the war there.  Buckley was killed in a jeep/land mine accident that also killed fellow Brit Ian Morrison on August 12, 1950.  Also killed in the accident was Col. Unmi Nayar, a former Indian army public relations officer during World War II who was in Korea as India's representative on the United Nations Commission.  Buckley was soon to retire as a war correspondent, but he died in a hospital soon after the jeep accident.  Nayar was killed instantly.  Buckley was 45 years old.  He had been a correspondent since 1940, and his reporting from several fronts in World War II won him an international reputation. Buckley studied military history at Oxford.

Emery, Frank

An International News Service correspondent, age 23, from Beverly Hills, California, he was killed on September 7, 1950 when the C-24 cargo plane that was taking him and other correspondents back to Korea exploded and crashed shortly after leaving base in southern Japan.  Emery had returned to Tokyo for a rest on August 23 after suffering three wounds in a night patrol action across the Naktong River west of Taegu.  He was a former Pacific Stars & Stripes editor.

Fielder, Wilson Jr.

War correspondent for Time and Life.  Formerly Hong Kong Bureau Chief for Time, Fielder died July 22, 1950 by machinegun fire as he leaving Communist-captured Taejon.  He had been transferred to Korea from Hong Kong one week after the war started.  Age 33, he was the son of Baptist missionaries in China and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Graham, William H.

Aviation editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, Graham was sent to Korea to cover the Pacific airlift of the Korean War.  He drowned on March 3, 1951 when a Navy Douglas Skyraider failed to take off and crashed into the Pacific.

Han, Kyu-Ho

A correspondent with Seoul Shinmun, he was killed June 29, 1950 while covering front-line action with South Korean army units.

Hinton, Albert L.

Norfolk (Virginia) Journal and Guide war correspondent.  Died July 27, 1950 with 25 others when the military plane carrying him to Korea crashed off the coast of Japan.  Hinton was the first African-American war correspondent to be killed in either World Wars or Korea.  He was the managing editor of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, on loan as a pool correspondent to the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association.  He was 46 and a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Inouye, Ken

Age 22, he was a Japanese-American from Wen, New York who was a cameraman for Telenews, an affiliate of International News Service.  He was killed in the same crash as Frank Emery.  He had returned to Tokyo from Korea on August 31st and was returning to the Korean front.

Moore, William R.

Moore worked for The Oklahoman until 1937, and then he was hired by the Associated Press.  He left to serve as an Army Major in Korea in 1946, returning to AP in 1948.  He was serving as an AP correspondent in Korea when he and tank commander Lt. Samuel R. Fowler were killed by North Koreans in Masan on July 31, 1950.

Morrison, Ian

British correspondent with The Times.  Morrison was a World War II correspondent who then went to Korea to cover the war there.  While covering the war in the South Pacific during World War II, Morrison contracted dengue fever, tropical ulcers, amoebic dysentery, and recurrent malaria.  He had also been in two plane crashes and was wounded twice.  He was based in Singapore when the Korean War broke out.  On August 12, 1950, the jeep in which he and two others were riding hit a land mine and blew up.  He was killed instantly.  He was 37 years old.

Pearcy, Derek Arthur Gordon

Born in Palmers Green, London, Derek Pearcy was taken to Australia by his parents in December 1938, aged 12, as fears of war mounted in Europe. He attended North Sydney High school and joined the Sydney Daily Telegraph as a copy boy, rising to become a reporter for the daily and Sunday editions. Towards the end of World War Two, Pearcy served in the Royal Australian Air Force.

After the war, he went to Japan and worked on BCON, the Osaka based newspaper of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces. When that newspaper closed Pearcy moved to the English language Japan News in March 1950, the year war broke out in Korea between the Communists and United Nations forces.

The Japan News ‘loaned’ Pearcy to the joint Reuters-AAP (Australian Associated Press) team covering the conflict. The secondment lasted two months and was followed by another in May 1951. On 25th May Pearcy, described by colleagues as a hard working and popular journalist with a loud guffaw, celebrated his 25th birthday with other war correspondents at a warfront U.N. command post. Next day Pearcy set out on another reporting assignment. At 5.15pm his jeep ran over a mine and he was killed instantly. It happened 100 yards outside a command post of the Canadian 25th Brigade, some 10 miles (16 kilometres) north east of Uijongbu, north of Seoul and not far from the border that now divides North and South Korea. A Canadian army press officer and a British army driver died with him.

Pearcy had been due to leave Korea two weeks later and planned to return to Sydney and set up home with his parents. Having spent the years of World War Two in Australia, they had gone back to England in 1949. But only two years later they decided to return to Australia to live. When Pearcy died his parents were aboard a liner approaching Melbourne. His brother went out by launch and broke the news to them.

Peeler, Ernie

Killed in action in Korea.  A brief story on the last page of Pacific Stars & Stripes July 28, 1950, reported that Corporal Peeler was missing in action.  He, International News Service correspondent Ray Richards, and a jeep driver had last been seen heading toward a front line infantry battalion.  Later reports said they ran into a North Korean tank.  They were never seen again.  Peeler formerly worked for various San Bernardino newspapers and radio stations and had been in Tokyo about six months when he was killed.   Before joining Stars & Stripes, Peeler worked for INS in Los Angeles from 1931-41 and later, from 1945-49. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was recalled during the Korean War, serving as a corporal. He was 38.

Philomenko, Maximilen - France

Correspondent for the Agence France-Presse, he was killed in a plane crash on July 27, 1950 en route to Korea.

de Premonville, Jean-Marie - France

Correspondent for the Agence France-Presse, he was sent to Korea to take Maximilen Philomenko's place after he was killed.  de Premonville was killed February 12, 1951 by machine-gun fire while traveling with a raider patrol in central Korea. A veteran of the French Resistance during World War II, he had been wounded earlier in Korea. See also Reference section for book he co-authored about the Korean War.

Richards, Ray - USA

Killed July 10, 1950.  See Short Bio section.

Rosecrans, Charles Dukwell Jr.

A 20-year old International News photo cameraman and reporter from Honolulu, he was killed in the same crash as Frank Emery.  He had returned to Tokyo for a break from Korea on August 31, 1950.  Journalist and photographer, died in a plane crash/explosion with eleven others, heading back to Korea to cover the war there. He had a Japanese wife and was Great-grandson of the Union's Civil War General William Starke Rosecrans. Time Magazine wrote: "A dark, wiry little man who usually sported a billy-goat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific almost from start to finish, was in Tokyo when a new war sent him to Korea."

Simmons, Stephen

A Hilton Press and London Picture Post correspondent, he was killed in a plane crash en route to Korea July 27, 1950.

Supple, James O.

A Chicago Sun-Times correspondent, he was killed in a plane crash en route to Korea, July 27. 1950.  A Catholic layman who was well-respected in journalism and religious circles, he was one of the founders of the Religion Newswriters Association.

Facts & Trivia

• Stars & Stripes Museum and Library contact information: Stars and Stripes Museum/Library, 17377 Stars & Stripes Way, P.O. Box 1861, Bloomfield, Missouri 63825; ph. 573-568-2055; e-mail stripes@newwavecomm.net.  See also Stars & Stripes page on the Korean War Educator.

Reference Material

• Anderson, Fay and Richard Trembath.  Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting.  Melbourne University Press. 2011.  See the chapter, "Cold War Conflicts and the Wars of Decolonisation", which provides an overview of the challenges faced by Australian war correspondents in Korea. 
   
• Baudy, Philippe; Bromberger, Serge; de Premonville, Jean-Marie; and de Turenne, Henri, co-authors.  Return to Korea: Tales of 4 War Correspondents on the Korean Front.  Rene Juilliard, publisher.  1951.  Jean-Marie de Premonville was killed the same year the book was published when he was shot down by machine gun fire while riding with a patrol during the battle of Chipyong-ni on February 12, 1951.
   
• Burchett, Wilfred.  Again Korea.  New York.  International.  1968.  Wilfred Burchett's memoir is said to be the only full-length Korean War war correspondent memoir that covers the events surrounding the armistice negotiations period of the Korean War.
   
• Cartoons
  • Babysan: A Private Look at the Japanese Occupation.  Bill Hume.  Kasuga Boeki K.K., 1953.  Bill Hume was a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes.
  • Out of Line: A Collection of Cartoons from Pacific Stars & Stripes.  Toppan Printing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. 1952.
  • When We Get Back Home from Japan.  Bill Hume.  Charles E. Tuttle Company.  1953.  Bill Hume was a cartoonist for Stars & Stripes.
     
• Casey, Steven.  "Wilfred Burchett and the UN Command's media relations during the Korean War, 1951-52".  Original citation: Journal of History, 74.  Also available online through LSE Research at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk.  An in-depth study of war correspondent Wilfred Burchett.
   
• Cutforth, Rene.  Korean Reporter.  1952.  William Clowes & Sons Ltd., London.  Cutforth was a BBC special correspondent from December 1950 until the end of July 1951.  The entire book is about his experiences in Korea from the time his plane landed until the time he left.
   
• Dille, John.  Substitute for Victory.  Doubleday & C., 1954.  An analysis of the Korean War by John Dille, war correspondent for Life magazine.
   
• Ebener, Charlotte.  No Facilities for Women.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York.  1955.  Charlotte Ebener was a news correspondent who spent November/December 1946 in pre-Korean War South Korea after spending time previously in Manchuria.  She wrote free-lance articles about Korea 1946 for Newsweek.  Chapter IV of this book is entitled, "The Thirty-Eighth Parallel" and tells of Ebener's impressions of Korea at the time, including visits with Mr. and Mrs. Syngman Rhee.
   
• Higgins, Marguerite.  War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent.  1951.  The Country Life Press, New York.  A 223-page book with photo illustrations by Life photographer Carl Mydans, War in Korea highlights the experiences of correspondent Marguerite Higgins from the time she arrived in Korea in June through December 1950.
   
• Hill, Dick.  Battle Talk! Memoirs of a Marine Radio Correspondent.  Beaver's Pond Press. 288 pages.  Softcover with audio CD.  Fifty years after serving in Korea Hill found a seabag full of lost tapes recorded during the Kean War, including a rare interview with the Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams.
   
• Jenks, John.  "Consorting with the Enemy: American Reporters and 'Red Sources' at the Korean Truce Talks, 1951-1953."  Journal of Conflict Studies, Volume 22, No. 1 (2002).  Information arrangements between American and Communist-affiliated journalists during the truce talks.
   
• Knightley, Phillip.  The First Casualty. 1975, The Johns Hopkins University Press. See Chapter 14, "Korea, The United Nations' War 1950-1953", pp. 365-390.  This chapter describes positive and negative aspects of American and foreign war correspondents who covered the Korean War in-theatre.  There is discussion about pre-censorship in the early days of the war, as well as the censored reporting that later followed.  He also discusses the reporting of atrocities and a variety of interesting facts about the life of war correspondents based in Korea during the war years.  London-based Knightley, an investigative journalist with the Sunday Times for twenty-some years, is critical in general of American war correspondents.|
   
• Mauldin, Bill.  Bill Mauldin in Korea.  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.  1952.  The Korean War version of "Willie and Joe", Army characters created by Mauldin during World War II.  In Bill Mauldin in Korea, Joe is now a war correspondent writing home to Willie, who lives stateside.
   
• Pacific Stars & Stripes: The First 40 Years 1945-1985. Chapter contents related to the Korean War include: The Occupation Years 1945-1950; The Korean War 1950-1953; After Korea 1953-1970.
   
• Rich, John.  Korean War in Color: A Correspondent's Retrospective on a Forgotten War.  Published by Seoul Selection, 2010.  Color photographs of a wide variety of subjects in Korea during the war years--everything from natives to military brass.
   
• Schumack, Ray.  News Dispatches from the Korean War.  AuthorHouse. 2012.  The author served as a Stars & Stripes correspondent while serving in the United States Army.  His work is about the 3rd Division in Korea.
   
• Shinn, Bill.  The Forgotten War Remembered: Korea 1950-1953: A War Correspondent's Notebook and Today's Danger in Korea.  Hwa-bong Sin (publisher), 1996.  A war correspondent's perspective of the fighting for Seoul, Pusan Perimeter, Inchon landing, and negotiations at Panmunjom.
   
• Stone, I. F. The Hidden History of the Korean War.  Monthly Review Press, Spring 1952.  Stone was a columnist for the New York Daily Compass when he began to research the war after noticing that British and French correspondents were writing about the Korean War differently than American correspondents.
   
• Thompson, Reginald.  Cry Korea.  Published in Britain November 1951.  Thompson was an experienced war correspondent who was critical of the conduct of the war and of the senseless destruction of the country.