Soldiers of the Press — 1943

Ned Russell reports the siege of the North African position the troops nicknamed Stuka Acres.

Robert P. Martin flies with American bombers striking Japanese shipping in Haiphong harbour.

A widow asks her local paper how her husband died at Oran. The question reaches Leo Disher in an English hospital, and the letter he writes back to her -- describing the man she lost as he looked standing against the gunfire -- becomes the program.

Robert C. Miller on the fighting on Guadalcanal, built around the warrior code the title names.

The earliest of the three Walter Cronkite programs, filed from an American heavy-bomber base in England, where Cronkite was one of the eight reporters trained to fly on high-altitude Fortress missions over the Continent.

Two United Press men crossing to London stand watch alongside an exhausted crew, and see their convoy fight off a U-boat pack in the grey before dawn. The sound crew built the attack from the reporters' own account of what the tracer fire looked like skipping over the sea.

Clinton B. Conger spends a night in action aboard a British motor torpedo boat off the coast of Holland.

Russell Annabel goes in with American and Canadian forces at Kiska, in the Aleutians.

George Palmer is aboard when the ship he is travelling on is torpedoed, and watches the crew keep her afloat all the way home to port.

Three unarmed Americans are taken prisoner by German troops -- and by the end of Reynolds Packard's story they are the ones marching their captors back.