The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

His first cruise was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Cabot. During the tiff he admitted that his heart was with the infantrymen in Europe but he persevered to report on the Navy's efforts during the invasion of Okinawa. C.

His travel articles about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there were written in a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend; many were collected in Home Country (1947). By the war he enjoyed a following in some 300 newspapers and was among the best-known American war correspondents in Europe.