#war correspondents

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"War Correspondents and Personnel Enroute Overseas," 7/9/1944 

Series: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 9/1942 - 12/1945. Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, 1917 - 1966.

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Sean Flynn (1941-1970)

American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

Sean Flynn (31.05.1941 - 06.04.1970; declared legally dead in 1984)

Flynn was the only child of Australian-American actor Errol Flynn and his first wife, French-American actress Lili Damita. After studying briefly at Duke University, he embarked on an acting career. He retired by the mid-1960s to become a freelance photojournalist under contract to Time.

In search of exceptional images, he traveled with special forces units and irregulars operating in remote areas. While on assignment in Cambodia in April 1970, Flynn and fellow photojournalist Dana Stone were captured by communist guerrillas. Neither man was seen or heard from again. He was 27.

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Martha Gellhorn

War correspondent Martha Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri. During a journalistic career of over sixty years, Gellhorn reported on one dozen major conflicts. Covering major news of the twentieth century from the Spanish Civil War to the US invasion of Panama, she put human suffering at the forefront of her reporting and often went to great lengths for her stories. She sneaked onshore in a stretcher-bearer during the D-Day landings, and accompanied British pilots on their bombing raids on Germany. Aside from her distinguished career as a war reporter, Gellhorn also wrote fourteen novellas, five novels, and two short story collections.

Martha Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of 89.

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Rest in peace, Marguerite Higgins.  The first female journalist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence, Higgins worked for the New York Herald Tribune and helped break the glassy ceiling for women in journalism with her exceptional reporting during WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.  While on assignment in Vietnam in 1965, she contracted leishmaniasis and died from complications thereof on this date in 1966 at the age of 45.

Stamp details: Issued on: September 14, 2002 From: Fort Worth, TX SC #3668

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I rest my case. 🫴

If counting only accredited war correspondents and photographers (the standard definition used for direct comparison with modern conflicts): approximately 85–92 were killed in the European theatre of WWII.

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As of late November 2025, at least 249 journalists, photographers, and media workers have been killed, per CPJ's comprehensive tally across Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran. This includes:~240 Palestinian (primarily in Gaza).

4 Israeli (killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack).

3 Lebanese (killed by Israeli strikes near the border).

~2 others (Yemeni and Iranian, linked to regional spillover).

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