Soldiers of the Press

(1942-1945)

Drama / News

Cast: Lon Clark, Jackson Beck, Eleanor Packard, Frank Hewlett, Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury and Charles Arnot

Step into a time machine and head back to World War II with these direct witness accounts.  Each 15 minute segment features reports on events great and small in both theaters of war.

United Press used these shows to highlight their journalists while reporting from behind enemy lines in Germany, Japan, and Italy and including such historic events as battling Rommell in North Africa, Marines storming the beach at Guadalcanal, and Doolittle's bombing run on Tokyo.