Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World War II.
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