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There were 18 war correspondents killed in action during the Korean War.
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.
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.
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.
A correspondent with Seoul Shinmun, he was killed June 29, 1950 while covering front-line action with South Korean army units.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Correspondent for the Agence France-Presse, he was killed in a plane crash on July 27, 1950 en route to Korea.
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.
Killed July 10, 1950. See Short Bio section.
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."
A Hilton Press and London Picture Post correspondent, he was killed in a plane crash en route to Korea July 27, 1950.
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.