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Max Hastings, British war correspondent (and later famous was historian) for the The London Evening Standard during the Falklands War and the first Briton to enter Argentine-held Port Stanley.

The London Evening Standard's headline over its war reporter's dispatch proclaimed him as "The first man into Stanley".
Hastings was at the front line with 2 para as they prepared to march into the town. The troops were ordered to halt but Hastings simply walked down the road into Stanley. He then secured an interview with the Argentinian colonel in charge.

But journalistic envy has spawned a different tale. According to two among the furious band of war correspondents, the Daily Express's Bob McGowan and ITN's Jeremy Hands, Hastings wasn't the first journalist into Stanley. In their book, they stated that the Daily Mail's David Norris beat Hastings, a claim republished - unchallenged - in a letter to the Mail a couple of weeks ago.

Norris, now retired from the Mail, readily concedes that Hastings beat him. What really exercised McGowan, Norris and others was their belief that Hastings deliberately delayed the filing of their reports to ensure his exclusive. All the reporters' copy had to be sent via satellite but the machines were located on ships moored off the coast. Hastings secured the only helicopter seat available and the others vouchsafed their reports to him.

Hastings was flown first to HMS Fearless so that the MoD censor could check the material. He was then told that it wouldn't be possible to send any copy for several hours so that PM Margaret Thatcher could announce the victory rather than the press. But Hastings was allowed, hours later, to finally send his dispatch. According to Hastings, he inadvertently left his colleagues' reports either with the censor or with the operators.

It was many hours before they were sent, and some appear never to have reached their papers. Hastings, with the advantage of an evening paper deadline, beat Fleet Street's mornings by a mile.
 
War Photographers Michael Kamber and Louie Palu on Iraq and Afghanistan.- (Michael Kamber is a photojournalist who has covered wars throughout the world. He has been nominated for three Pulitzer Prizes, twice for photography and once for writing. Louie Palu is an documentary photographer).-
 
ARILD HAMSUN, a war correspondent member of the Waffen-SS during WW2, son of the famous Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun - after being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.-
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D. Chapelle was the first female war correspondent to be killed in Vietnam, as well as the first American female reporter to be killed in action.

On November 4, 1965 while on patrol with a Marine platoon during Operation Black Ferret, a search and destroy operation 16 km south of Chu Lai, Quang Ngai Province, I Corps. The lieutenant in front of her kicked a tripwire boobytrap. Chapelle was hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel which severed her carotid artery.

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Chapelle was so admired by the Marines with which she was embedded that her body was repatriated with an honor guard of six Marines and was given full Marine burial.
 
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William Homer "Bill" Genaust (born on oct 12, 1906) was a Sergeant in the USMC and a war photographer who is most famous for capturing the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima on color film with his 16 millimeter camera.
On march 4, 1945, Genaust was killed when he entered a darkened cave and was shot to death. He had volunteered to use his camera light so that he could light the way for other marines entering the cave when he was killed. The cave mouth was covered over by bulldozing equipment, and his body was never recovered.
Genaust is among 250 listed missing on Iwo Jima although most of those Americans were lost at sea.
 
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Tech/Sgt. Val C. Pope, from Los Angeles, served with a U.S. Army Signal Corps company during WW2. He was one of the first combat cameramen to make it ashore on D-Day. He landed on Omaha Beach with still photographer Walter Rosenblum sometime during the morning of June 6th. Armed only with a movie camera, Val and Walter set about capturing the chaos on Omaha as it unfolded around them. One of the most gripping movie clips Val shot that survived the landing was the rescue of several drowning GI’s. Their landing craft was hit and sinking, and as they ended up in the water floundering, a young lieutenant saw their plight from shore. He grabbed a cast away life raft, jumped into the surf and swam out to them. Val’s footage shows the men being helped ashore.
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For the next several days, Val remained right in the thick of the fighting, filming some of the iconic scenes of the early days of the invasion. While walking past a couple of buildings in search of a Red Cross aid station, he was ambushed by a German machine gun team. Hit in the head, he fell back unconscious as a fellow combat camerman dove for cover. A few minutes later, a group of GI’s rushed out and pulled Val out of the line of fire. He died as medics worked furiously to save his life.
He was awarded the Bronze Star posthumously on 25 Augt 1944.
 
Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, in north of Svay Rieng, Cambodia, May 8, 1970. The same day, a hour later, the 21-year-old native of South Vietnam's Mekong Delta became the first newsman reported wounded in the current Cambodian border operations.
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