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The Women who Wrote the War

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by Nancy Cladwell Sorel


  Jacoby, Melville, 135, 136, 141-43, 152, 294; death of, 163; memorial garden to, 296; Philippines, 146, 154-58, 160, 162; Yellow River front, 144-45

  Japan, 146, 298; advances on China, 132-33, 295; atomic bombs, 380; attitude toward U.S., 129; biological warfare, 108-9; bombing of Clark Field, 151-58; bombing of Pearl Harbor, 129, 148-52; courting of U.S. favor, 130; final months of war, 377-81; Italian

  alliance with, 149-51; prisoners of war, 380; surrender documents, 388

  Japanese Americans, internment of, in U.S. West, 159-60

  Japanese Supreme War Council, 381

  Jews, 220, 274. See also anti-Semitism

  Jodl, Alfred, 370, 373

  Joint Expeditionary Force, 379

  Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 23, 29

  Juin, Alphonse, 259

  kamikaze attacks, 297, 378

  Kennedy, Edward, 77, 371-72

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 149

  Kerr, Walter, 87

  Kirkpatrick, Helen, 13-15, 58-59, 65-66, 68, 76-77, 92, 102, 128-29, 170, 242,267,272,278, 321; AEF in Great Britain, 171-74; awards of, 392; Britain, 96-97; Battle of Bavaria, 332-33; Berchtesgaden, 370; Battle of Britain, 96-97; Buchenwald, 347-50; Frankfurt, 331; Gestapo activities, 268-69; Italy, 203-4; jeep-driving habits, 335; Leipzig, 336-37; in liberated Paris, 256-57, 271; London, V-l rockets, 233; London Blitz, 99-100; Normandy invasion, 225; North Africa, 198; Overlord, 219; Paris liberation and de Gaulle, 259-61; Pearl Harbor, 148-49; Petain trial, 385-86; post-D Day France, 250-51, 255; postwar adjustment, 392; prewar reporting, 52-53; prisoners of war, 338; Rheims surrender, 371; This Terrible Peace, 58

  Klingelputz Gestapo prison, 318-19

  Knickerbocker, “Knick,” 54-55, 97

  Knox, Frank, 58, 76, 83, 204, 219

  Koenig, Marie-Pierre, 250, 259

  Kotzebue, Albert, 341

  Krupp, Alfred, 15,383

  Kuhn, Irene Corbally, 132

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 390

  Lager Dora (Nordhausen) camp, 350-51

  Laird, Stephen, 106-9, 112, 127-28, 148, 177-78

  Landsberg camp, 353

  Langen, Baron Wolfgang von, 150

  Lardner, John, 378-79

  The Last Days of Hitler (film), 345

  League of Nations, 12, 22, 57

  Leatherneck magazine, 313

  Leclerc, Philippe, 256-57, 259

  Lee, Clark, 154, 155, 157, 158

  Lee, John Clifford Hodges, 266

  Leipzig, 336-37

  LeLong, Lucien, 267

  Lend-Lease program, 125

  Lennox, Victor Gordon, 52

  Lewis, Dorothy Thompson. See Thompson, Dorothy

  Lewis, Ervin, 274

  Lewis, Sinclair, 5, 79, 127

  Liberty, 152-53, 157

  Life, 47, 73-74, 120, 122, 133-34, 135, 143,146,279, 391-92,397; Bataan hospitals (A. Jacoby), 157; Bourke-White assignments, 47, 73-74, 175-76, 184-87, 189-91, 205-7, 383, 391-92; Chiang Kai-shek interview (A. Jacoby), 296; conscription of women (Welsh), 128; Japanese bombing of Manila (Mydans), 151-54; nurses in Pacific theater (Mydans), 298-99

  Life Story, 307

  Literary Digest, 133

  Little Review, 71

  Lochridge, Patricia, 301-6, 310; Dachau, 358-60; death of FDR, 334; Goering surrender, 383; Iwo Jima hospital ship, 304-6, 308-9; Munich, 332; postwar adjustment, 396; views on wartime sex, 322

  London: Blitz, 99-105; D Day, 233; eve of World War II, 68; V-l rockets, 233; wartime, 126-128, 196

  Long, Tania, 92-96, 110, 170, 178; award, 104-5; England, 174-75; in liberated Paris, 262, 271; London V-l rockets, 233; London Blitz, 99, 100, 102-5; marital decisions, 174-75; post-D Day, in France, 245; postwar adjustment, 392-93; postwar Berlin, 385; return to U.S., 112

  Look magazine, 307

  Lowery, Lew, 313

  Lozovsky, Solomon A., 121

  LSTs,230,231,232

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 142, 271

  Luce, Henry, 45, 46, 134, 141, 142, 295, 296

  Luftwaffe, 96, 98-105, 114, 291

  MacArthur, Douglas, 152, 156, 162, 293, 297, 299, 388 Mademoiselle, 321, 384

  Madrid, 35-36 Madura, SS, 90

  MaginotLine, 15, 79, 86

  Majorca, 32-33

  Malmedy Massacre, 286-87

  Malraux, Andre, 25

  Manchester (England), 103 Manchester Guardian, 14, 132

  Mao Tse-tung, 131, 296

  Marin, Jean, 251

  Marine Corps, 304-13, 377, 378

  Marshall, George C, 170

  Martin, Robert P. “Pepper,” 135

  Marxism, 40

  Massock, Dick, 164 Le Matin, 61

  Matthews, Herbert, 41, 164

  Matthews, T. S., 394 Maya Maru (boat), 166-67

  Mayborn, Frank, 258 McCaWs, 339, 390

  McClure, Robert, 187, 192, 198

  McCormick, Robert, 52, 111

  McLaughlin, Kathleen, 104

  Metz (France), surrender of, 278— 79

  Milar, George, 384-85

  Milbank, Robbins, 392

  Miller, Harold, 308, 379

  Miller, Lee, 193-95,314,321; archives of (England), 393; Berchtesgaden, 369; Buchenwald, 349; Cologne, 317-19; Dachau, 358-60; de Gaulle speech, 254-55; German surrender, 373; hospital, post-D Day France, 246-47; Leipzig, 336-37; in liberated Paris, 261, 264-66; Munich, 362-63; Nijinsky interview, 384; and Picasso, 194, 264; postwar adjustment, 384, 393; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 341; Saint Malo, 251-53

  Missouri, USS, 388

  Mitford, Unity Valkyrie, 50-51

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 120

  Monks, Noel, 83, 86, 90, 99, 148, 196,221,270

  Montgomery, Bernard, 234, 250, 324, 370

  Moore, Henry, 195, 393

  Moore, Stanley, 320

  Morgan, Anne, 72, 81

  Morris, Johnny, 2 79

  Moscow, 118-20, 124

  Motoyama Airfield One (Iwo Jima), 311

  Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 4, 28, 32

  Mowrer, Paul Scott, 76

  Munich, 332, 362-63

  Munich conference, 53, 54, 55

  Murata (Spain), 38-39

  Murphy, Noel Haskins, 10, 53-54, 71,72,81-82,278,391

  Murray, Natalia Danesi, 278, 391

  Murrow, Edward R., 104; Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire, 195

  Mussolini, Benito, 12, 33, 62-64, 129-30, 149-50, 198, 365

  Mutual Radio Network, 110

  Mydans, Carl, 133-36, 143-45, 146, 151, 154-56, 160-63, 166-69, 198-99, 216, 297-98, 299-300

  Mydans, Shelley Smith, 133, 198-99, 304; accreditation, 296-97; Chiang Kai-shek, 143; China, 133-36; Chou En-lai, 143-44; Guam, 297-98; Japan, 380; Japanese bombing of Manila, 151-52, 153-54; Life report on Pacific nurses, 298-99; The Open City, 395; Pearl Harbor, 151; Philippines, 146, 154-56, 160, 299-300; postwar adjustment, 395; Santo Tomas, 160-63, 166-67; Shanghai, 167-69; Yellow River front, 144-45

  Myrdal, Gunnar, 13

  Nagasaki, atomic bomb on, 381

  Narkomindel, 121

  Nash, Bradley, 393 Nation, 16, 132

  Nazi Party, 5, 15-16, 20-21, 23, 50-52, 110-11, 340. See

  Fascism NBC, 146

  Neideraula Staatsforst “abortion camp,” 353-54

  Netherlands. See Holland

  Newark Ledger, 94 New Masses, 16 New Republic, 22

  News of the Day (newsreels), 279

  Newspaper Enterprise Association, 246 Newsweek, 113 New Yorker, 10,71,81,277;

  “Letter(s) from Paris” (Flanner), 8, 10,53-54, 72,278,354-56, 374-76, 391; “Peace in Our

  Time” (Flanner), 54; “Reporter at

  Large” (Hahn), 132 New York Evening Post, 2

  New York Herald Tribune, 14, 15, 29, 59, 62,77, 94, 95, 100, 110, 178, 196,211,216,279,320 New York Mirror, 81

  New York Newspaper Women’s Club,104-5 New York Post, 16-19, 46, 392 New York Sun, 132 New York Times, 41, 77, 78, 101-2, 104, 112, 135,164, 174,175, 178, 271,307,314-15,385 New York Times Sunday Magazine, 175,246

  Ni
jinsky, Romola and Vaslav, 384

  Nijmegen (Holland), 273-76

  Nimitz, Chester, 293, 297, 302-3, 388

  Nineteenth Corps, 249

  Nineteenth Tactical Air Command of the Ninth Air Force, 273

  Ninety-seventh Bomber Group, 189,200

  Ninth Air Force, 368

  Ninth Armored Division, First

  Army, 323-27

  Ninth Army, 272, 285, 315-17

  Nixon, Richard, 397

  Noailles, Vicomtesse de, 278

  nonaggression treaty, 64—65, 117, 118

  Normandy invasion, 224—34. See also

  D Day; Overlord “Norman Smith” (pseudonym), 114

  North Africa, 180, 182-92, 198

  North American Newspaper

  Alliance, 24 North-China Daily News, 132

  Norway, 74-76, 383

  Nuremberg trials, 387

  nurses, 189, 206, 247, 298-99, 305-6

  Office of War Information (OWI), 176

  Okinawa, 377-80

  Olaf, Crown Prince, 383

  Oldfield, Barney, 215, 315,385

  Olympus Line defense (Greece), 114, 115 101st Airborne, 273-74, 288, 289, 291,383 116th Evacuation Hospital, 360 120th Evacuation Hospital, 350 127th Evacuation Hospital, 360 100th Division, 279 100th Infantry Battalion, 315

  Organization of Business and Professional Women, 387

  Orwell, George, 25

  Oumansky, Ambassador, 122

  Overlord (code name), 211,219, 225. See also D Day; Normandy invasion

  Pacific Ocean Area (POA), 293, 304

  Pacific theater, 293, 298-99, 301, 303-4, 307-8, 377-81, 388

  Packard, Eleanor, 25-28, 58, 129-30, 198; Ethiopia, 27-28;

  Goering surrender, 382-83; internment in Italy, 163-65; Italian advance on Albania, 63-64; Italy, 235-37; Landsberg camp, 353; mistaken for a spy, 236-37; Munich, 332; Pearl Harbor bombing, 149-51; postwar adjustment, 391; southern France, 238-39; Spain, 28, 32,42

  Packard, Reynolds, 25-28, 42, 58, 129-30, 149-51, 163-65, 198, 235,238,391

  Palace Hotel (Shanghai), 167

  Papurt, Maxine Cohen, 240-41

  Papurt, Maxwell Jerome, 201-2, 206, 240-41

  Paris, 83-91, 256-71, 277-78, 320-21,374-76

  Paris-Soir, 29, 51, 67

  Patmore, Derek, 78-79

  Patton, George S., 198, 250, 251, 278, 289, 324-25, 349

  Pavlowski, Victoria, 298-99

  Pearl Harbor, 129, 148-52

  Penrose, Roland, 194-95, 266, 393

  Percival, Arthur, 388

  Petain, Marshal Henri Philippe, 89, 91,386

  Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1, 2 “Phil Brown” (pseudonym), 113-15

  Philippines, 146-47, 151-58, 159-63,297

  Photo-Secession group, 43

  Picasso, Pablo, 194, 264, 393

  Pius XII, Pope, 77, 235-36 PM (New York daily), 74, 117, 129

  Poland, 62, 65, 67-70, 72; refugees, 219-20,237-38

  Porter, Katherine Anne, 15

  Portugal, 165

  Potsdam Declaration, 381

  Pound, Ezra, 149

  Prague, 54-56, 370

  prisoners of war (POWs), 286-87, 337-39, 341, 380

  Pulitzer, Joseph, 368

  Quintanilla, Pepe, 36

  Ravensbrück camp, 338, 354— 56

  Ray, Man, 194

  Reader’s Digest, 141

  refugees, 81-91, 219-20, 237-38.

  See also displaced persons Reid, Helen Rogers, 178-79, 320

  Reid, Robert, 259

  Reinhardt, E. E, 344

  Reinhart, John, 256, 259 Relief JSS, 377 Remagen, 325-29

  reporters. See women reporters Reuben fames, 129

  Reynaud, Paul, 89

  Rheims (France), 370-72

  Rhine, 324-29

  Rhineland, 14

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 50, 65

  Ries, Hank, 396

  Robb, Inez Callaway, 187, 188, 192

  Robertson, Ben, 100

  Robertson, William D., 341

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 23, 105, 182, 188,274,334

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 125, 149, 156,218,333-34, 345

  Rosenberg, Alfred, 331

  Roussakov, Vladimir, 344

  Royal Air Force, 82, 83, 96, 98, 109, 110, 114-15,219, 228

  Russia. See Soviet Union Ryan, Cornelius, 231; The Longest Day, 231

  S., Heinrich von (friend of Tomara), 77-78

  Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, 25 Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 22, 212, 273

  Saint Malo (France), 251-53

  Saipan, 309-10

  Salter, Cedric, 69, 78

  Samaritan (hospital ship), 308, 310

  San Antonio Evening News, 181

  Santo Tomas camp, 155-56, 160-63, 166,297, 299-300

  Sauerwein, Jules, 61-62

  Savoy Hotel (London), 101-2, 126

  Scherman, David, 195, 252-53, 266, 362,369, 373, 384

  Schmidt, Johannes, 64

  Schultz, Sigrid, 3-8, 18-21, 58, 94, 385; Berchtesgaden, 52; Buchenwald, 347-50; Erla work camp, 353; Germany Will Try It Again, 339; Hitler interview, 5-6; “John Dickson” alias, 20, 64; leaving Germany, 11; Mutual Radio Network, 110-111; Nazi politics, 20-21; postwar adjustment, 390; return to Germany (1945), 339; Soviet-German nonaggression pact, 64-65

  Schweinfurt, 332-33

  Scottsboro case, 16

  Scripps-Canfield syndicate, 132

  Second Armored Division, French, 255-57, 280

  Seventh Airborne, 345

  Seventh Army, 272, 279, 280, 283, 362,369, 373, 383

  sex, wartime views on, 321-24

  sexism, 26, 53, 58-59, 76-77, 83, 95, 113, 177-78, 181, 183, 188,192, 198,211,216, 242,250,253,272, 277,283,293-94,299,316, 323-24, 379

  SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force), 226, 242,258,272,279,315,323,328, 368,371,372

  Shanghai, 132, 136, 166, 167-68

  Shapiro, Henry, 119

  Shaw, Irwin, 221, 255, 259

  Sheean, Vincent, 96

  Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 388

  Shipley, Mrs., 178

  Shirer, William, 63, 74-75, 110; Berlin Diary, 111

  Siegfried Line, 274, 281, 324

  Singapore, 145-46

  Sino-Japanese War, 132-33 60-1st Squadron, 98

  Sixth Army Group press camp, 332

  Sixth Marine Division, 379

  Sixty-ninth Division, 340, 341-46

  Smart Set magazine, 16

  Smedley, Agnes, 131-32

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 370, 378

  Snow, Edgar, 132

  Solace (hospital ship), 304-6, 308-9

  Solano, Solita, 10, 71, 72, 391

  Southwest Pacific theater, 293

  Soviet Union, 25, 59-61, 117-24; advance on Poland, 237; alliance with Germany against Poland, 70; Bourke-White in, 45, 117-24; German attack on, 117-24; and Hitler, prewar, 64-65; postwar, 382; Spanish Civil War, 40-41; switch to Allied cause, 125; takes Berlin, 365-69; Torgau meeting with U.S. forces, 340, 341-46; U.S. attitudes toward, 122, 175

  Spain, 24, 165

  Spanish Civil War, 25-26, 28-33, 34-42

  Spender, Stephen, 2 5

  Stalin, 118, 120-21,345,381 Stars and Stripes, 356

  Steichen, Edward, 194

  Stein, Gertrude, 72

  Steinhardt, Ambassador, 120

  Stoneman, Bill, 58

  Stowe, Leland, 62, 75-76

  Stringer, Ann, 315-17, 326, 376; First Army, 323; Lager Dora camp, 351; Nijinsky interview, 384; Ninth Army in Germany, 315-17; postwar adjustment, 383-84, 396; Remagen bridge, 328-29; Russian-U.S. meeting in Torgau, 342-44; views on wartime sex, 323

  Stringer, William, 315

  Strong, Anna Louise, 132

  Struthof camp, 280-81

  Sudetenland, 47, 49, 57, 62

  Sulzberger, Cy, 77

  Summersby, Kay, 184, 187

  Sunday Chronicle, 126

  Sunday Times (London), 49, 53, 58, 65

  Sun Yat-sen, Madame, 131

 
Suslaparov, Ivan, 370

  Sweden, 74, 75

  Taylor, Edmond, 29

  Teheran Conference, 204

  Tenth Armored, 289

  Third Army, 250-51, 272, 278-79, 284,285,289,324,330,333,347

  Third Battalion of the 273rd

  Infantry Regiment, Sixty-ninth

  Division, 340, 341-46

  Third Division, 369, 373, 383

  Thirty-eighth Evacuation Hospital, 205-7

  Thirty-sixth (Texas) Division, 205-6

  Thompson, Dorothy, 1-2, 4—5, 6-7, 28,32,58, 178, 193; banished from Germany, 7-8; Europe 1940

  trip, 76-77, 79-80; Hitler interview, 6, 8; as mother, 6-7; “On the Record,” 125-26; postwar adjustment, 390; and Sinclair Lewis, 5, 79, 127; in wartime England, 126-27 Tien Hsia magazine, 132

  Tiger tanks, 285-86

  Tigne, Dixie, 170 Time, 106-7, 135, 142, 177,314

  Time Inc. (Time-Life), 101, 134, 135, 221,294-95

  Tomara, Irina, 87-88, 90

  Tomara, Sonia, 59-62, 77-79, 81, 178, 239, 272; accreditation, 283; Algiers, 1944, 208; Alsace, 279-80; CBI theater, 196-98; de Gaulle speech, 254—55; France, 85, 87-90; France, post-D Day, 245; Gestapo activities, 267-68; Italy, 204-5, 208-10; in liberated Paris, 257-58, 271; post-surrender, 386; postwar adjustment, 391; Slavic roots of, 77-79; Struthof concentration camp, 280-81; Teheran Conference, 204; war in Poland, 67-70

  Tong, Hollington, 135-36

  Torgau, 340, 341-46

  Transradio News, 74

  Truman, Harry S., 333, 381

  Tucker, Lael. See Wertenbaker, Lael

  Tucker Laird Tully, Andrew, 365

  Twelfth Air Force, 189

  Twelfth Army Group, 272

  Twenty-sixth Infantry, 365-68 203rd General Hospital, 263

  Umezu, Yoshijiro, 388

  uniforms, for reporters, 170-71

  United China Relief, 141-42, 143, 296

  United Kingdom. See England

  United Press (UP), 22, 26, 78

  United States: attitude toward Great Britain, 175; attitude toward Soviet Union, 122, 175; attitude toward war, 104-5, 125-26, 129-30; and bombing of Manila, 153-54; and bombing of Pearl Harbor, 148-52; Torgau meeting with Russian forces, 340, 341-46

  U.S. Army Forces Far East (USAFFE), 154

  V-E Day, 362-76

  Versailles Treaty, 14

  Victor Emmanuel, King, 198

  Vienna, 383-84

  Vogue, 22, 193, 194, 195, 246-47, 271,384

  Voice of America, 391

  V-ls. See buzz bombs

  Waafs (Air Force), 128,228

  Wacs (Army). See Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

  Wainwright, Jonathan M., 388

  Walton, William, 221, 255, 291, 336,351,370

 

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