D-Day through the eyes of a war correspondent
Doon Campbell was the first war correspondent from an Allied nation to set foot on Normandy sand
04 June 2019 - 16:25
Paris — Seventy-five years ago, as machine gun fire consumed the landing beach in northern France and artillery shells burst overhead, Reuters correspondent Doon Campbell struggled to keep the keys of his typewriter free of the exploding earth.
But he needed to write his dispatch, so he tore a page from an exercise book, lay low and scribbled by hand, with the dateline: “A DITCH 200 YARDS INSIDE NORMANDY"...
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