Soldiers of the Press — 1945

Army nurses on the Western Front, working around the clock in field dress as the German advance came closer, refused a colonel's order to fall back and leave their wounded behind. Walter Cronkite watched them and named them for the Army Medical Corps emblem.

Hunted after the fall of Manila, Doris Rubens Johnston hid in the mountains with Filipino help for more than a year before surrendering to spare her friends' family, then waited out two years of internment. The script gave her guerrillas and left out her husband, who was beside her the whole time.

Ann Stringer interviews the soldiers who went out under fire to strip German demolition charges off a Rhine bridge -- the first patrol of an invading army across that river in 140 years. One captain, meeting a woman reporter at the front, remarks that the war is becoming almost civilised.

Boyd Lewis on the end of the war in Europe -- and on the fifteen correspondents invited to the surrender ceremonies who promised to hold the story until the military released it. One of them broke the promise.

The last program under this title. Edward W. Beattie of the United Press is captured by the Germans, taken to Berlin and then to Buchenwald -- and a colleague from his own wire service goes in to bring him back.