Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs

A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.

Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism.

From September 1942, as a freshly minted Associated Press journalist in New York...