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	Edward H. Crockett Newsman Harry Crockett was killed during World War II when the British ship he was on was torpedoed by enemy warships Feb. 5, 1943 in the Mediterranean Sea. He was 31. Crockett began covering the war a year earlier, reporting from the battlefront in Egypt and German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's last offensive at Bir Hacheim in the desert. "He rode tanks. ... He stood with gunners to watch artillery pound the enemy and he watched infantry from points of vantage where only a man with real courage would want to stand," wrote Ed Kennedy, an AP correspondent who had worked with Crockett in the Middle East. "He was as familiar with the bazaars and streets of Cairo as with ...the desert. ...The hustle and bustle and color of life fascinated him." A native of Lowell, Mass., Crockett joined the AP in Boston in 1937 after working at The Lowell (Mass.) Courier-Citizen and The Lowell Evening Leader.
	George Bede Irvin Newsman George Bede Irvin was killed July 25, 1944, after photographing an aerial bombardment north of St. Lo, France, during a barrage that signalled the start of the Allied drive out of Normandy during World War II. He was 33. An Allied bomb which fell short of its mark caught Irvin as he dived for a roadside ditch from the jeep he had been sitting in. He had apparently tried to grab his camera before escaping the jeep and was hit by a bomb fragment. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Irvin attended the University of Iowa and Drake University before going to work as a photographer for the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Irvin joined the AP in Kansas City in 1936 and soon after transferred to Detroit. He went to London in 1943 on the eve of the Normandy invasion, the first American photographer assigned to cover the war in Europe for the AP. He was assigned to the Ninth Air Force in France in 1944. Irvin was buried with military honors at a U.S. Military Cemetery near La Cambe, France, on July 27, his 34th birthday.
	Ace Bush Newsman Asahel (Ace) Bush was the first correspondent to lose his life in the Phillipines during World War II. Bush died Oct. 25, 1944 when a Japanese bomb struck the American-occupied capital of Tacloban, on the Philippine island of Leyte. He was 31. He died one year to the day after he left San Francisco to report on action in the Pacific theater during World War II. He covered nearly every operation launched by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and came close to death on many of his assignments. Bush was born into a newspaper family in Salem, Ore. His great-grandfather established the state's first newspaper, The Oregon City Statesman. He joined the AP in 1939 in Salt Lake City after working for the Klamath Falls (Ore.) Herald. In 1941, he transferred to San Francisco and two years later was sent to cover MacArthur's troops in Australia, New Guinea and Leyte. Bush graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1933 .
	Joe Morton War Correspondent Joe Morton was executed by the Nazis Jan. 24, 1945 at the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria. He was 34. Morton had accompanied a group of American intelligence officers on a mission in Slovakia during the fall of 1944 to investigate and assist in a revolt that liberated downed Allied airmen from enemy prison camps. When the Nazis closed in on the center of the uprising, Morton and the OSS men were forced to flee to the mountains. They found shelter in a mountain hut after a two-month trek through bitter cold and deep snow, but were captured the day after celebrating Christmas. The Nazis burned down the hut, and Morton and six members of the mission were taken to Mauthausen. Morton joined the AP in 1937 in Lincoln, Neb., and worked in Cleveland before transferring to New York, where he trained for the foreign service. Morton's first posting during the war was in Liberia. He later covered the invasion of Sicily and Italy and rode in an American bomber on the first bombing of Rome. A native of St. Joseph, Mo., Morton also worked for the St. Joseph News Press, St. Joseph Gazette, Des Moines Register and Omaha Bee.
	William R. Moore Newsman William R. Moore was killed by mortar fire in Korea July 31, 1950, after dropping his pencil and notebook to care for an Army lieutenant wounded in a Communist attack near Chinju. He was 40. Moore joined the AP in Denver in 1937, and was assigned to work night rewrite. Eager for a career overseas, Moore told AP General Manager Kent Cooper in a two-page letter that "the foreign field holds just as long a list of the attractions for me as it must for every other single man in the organization. And that must be a long list." He got his first chance to go overseas with the Army, serving in Korea during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He returned to the AP in New York in 1946 and went to Korea in 1948 as a correspondent. After working a brief stint in Hong Kong, Moore returned to Korea at the outbreak of the war, on June 29, 1950. A native of Nowata, Okla., Moore graduated from the University of Oklahoma and also worked for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City and KVOR in Colorado Springs, Colo.
	Daniel Coughlin Daniel J. Coughlin Jr. was one of six reporters killed on board a U.S. Air Force plane attempting to break transatlantic speed records. The plane crashed on takeoff from Westover Air Force Base, Mass. Coughlin was 31. The jet, one of four attempting to break speed records between New York and London, snapped power lines and burst into flames, sliding across the newly-finished Massachusetts Turnpike before exploding in a cornfield on June 27, 1958. Coughlin joined the AP in Charlotte in 1952 and transferred to his native Boston in 1957. He graduated from Boston College High School at 16 and enlisted in the Army. During World War II, Coughlin landed in Normandy with the first wave of U.S. troops on D-Day. He wrote for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes from 1945 to 1946. After the war, Coughlin graduated from Boston College. He worked on the weekly Ipswich Chronicle and the Parkway Transcript, a Boston weekly, before joining AP.