War Fronts Home Fires: A WWII correspondent's remarkable coverage, his wife's indomitable spirit. McQuaid Joseph W.

As a World War II newspaper correspondent, B.J. Third Army General George S. Patton. McQuaid covered American and British front lines from the frozen Aleutian Islands of Alaska, to the steaming jungles and seas of the South Pacific, at Tarawa and Guadalcanal and then to Europe from D-Day forward in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany.He interviewed Sir Bernard Law Montgomery during the Battle of the Bulge and went toe-to-toe with U.S.

His stories ran in more than 80 American newspapers He was separated from his wife and two small children for three years.He interviewed and got the names of frontline soldiers and sailors, providing a link to their families back home in towns and cities across the United States.