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Members of the Writing 69th suiting up. Photo credit: AP/Wide World February 26, 1943:
Members of the "Writing 69th", including Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney and Homer Bigart, accompany the Eighth Air Force on a bombing raid over Wilhelmshaven, Germany. During the raid, the B-24 carrying New York Times reporter Robert Post is shot down, killing all aboard.

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