The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

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.