Why Walter Cronkite and 7 other journalists attended aerial gunnery school
During WWII, American war correspondents sent news from the frontlines back home to the states. Based out of London, journalists could only meet returning airmen after their missions to record their stories. To give war correspondents a first-hand look at the air war, the U.S. Army Air Forces' 8th Air Force permitted eight journalists to fly bomber missions over Germany in 1943.
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