Floyd Phillips Gibbons was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporters and commentators, he was famous for a fast-talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke.
Gibbons is given a "home town" welcome at Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 5, 1918. To the right of the photo is his sister Zelda.
Gibbons and his wife in Chicago (1917)
Gibbons (c. 1919)
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.
Alan Wood, war correspondent for the Daily Express, types a dispatch during the battle. Arnhem, 1944.
Battle council on the De Zeven Provinciën by Willem van de Velde the Elder. The prelude to the Four Days Battle in 1666.
Western military attachés and war correspondents with the Japanese forces after the Battle of Shaho in 1904.