Correspondents: Americans

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 - correspondent to New York Herald Tribune
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
Graham, William H. - Killed off of Tokyo, Japan while serving as a war correspondent. He was an observer on AD-4Q #124045 when the plane was damaged during takeoff from the carrier Princeton and went into the water. He was picked up by the destroyer Sickle, where he died on Saturday after the crash on March 03, 1951. Born in South Charleston, Ohio, in 1911, he was the husband of Gwendolyne Lloyd Graham (1907-1954) and the son of Grace Graham of Hoboken, New Jersey. He was an aviation editor for the New York Journal of Commerce.
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: https://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.