War correspondent cartoon

[MauldinFan]

Back page from the Associated Press interoffice magazine from March 1944, art by Howell Dodd:

 

[MauldinFan]

I've been collecting Dodd's work for years and got to see his uniform and personal stuff at the museum at the draw at Omaha Beach, in 2018...

 

[Smithy]

One of the things I love about this forum is how members share their knowledge and passion for things that I have absolutely no knowledge of. US war correspondence isn't something I know anything about but I appreciated you sharing that here and I think I learnt something.

 

[B-Man2]

Totally agree Tim.
BTW … The musette bag with War Correspondent Stenciling is damn cool.
If they haven’t done one yet … Kay Canvas or ATF should do a repro . I’d be in for one .

 

[MauldinFan]

More here from my collection.

War Correspondent

Among my many interests, I have a substantial collection of items and uniforms worn by civilian (and some military) correspondents for the US in WW2. Here are a few of the displays I've put on with that over the years: This is all original stuff, the correspondent field manual is extremely rare:

www.vintageleatherjackets.org

BTW … The musette bag with War Correspondent Stenciling is damn cool.
If they haven’t done one yet … Kay Canvas or ATF should do a repro . I’d be in for one.

I took an ATF one and made my own several years ago.

For me it wasn't difficult at all.
I thought about putting the Dodd name but decided not to. I'd had a photo of his musette from a book many years before I saw it in person in France.