Byron Darnton was an American reporter and war correspondent for The New York Times in the Pacific theater during World War II.
11 Facts About Byron Darnton
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Byron Darnton was killed in 1942 by a bomb dropped from an American B-25 Mitchell bomber, the tenth American war correspondent killed in action in the war.
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Byron Darnton had served with the 32nd Infantry Division during World War I and was looking forward to reporting its operations in World War II.
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Byron Darnton was based near Port Moresby and his reporting included his characteristic wit through amusing anecdotes related by servicemen, and discussed the mood of the troops on the ground and their thoughts regarding the war and its future.
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On October 18,1942, Byron Darnton was aboard the King John, a seventy-foot wooden trawler of the Small Ships Section of US Army Services of Supply SWPA that was carrying 102 troops of the 128th Infantry, off the coast of Pongani in New Guinea when a B-25 mistook the ships for Japanese vessels and bombed and strafed them.
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Byron Darnton, suffering a shrapnel head wound, died in a boat on the way to shore and Lt.
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Byron Darnton was hot to be on the spot for the first contact of American Army ground troops with the Japs.
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John Byron Darnton joined The New York Times as a copy boy in 1966 and went on to work for The New York Times for four decades.
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Byron Darnton received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his coverage of Poland under martial law when he smuggled stories out of the country.
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On March 16,1946, the Byron Darnton ran aground in an easterly gale off the coast of Sanda Island in the North Channel off the coast of Scotland.
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Byron Darnton used it in 1930 after a New York cocktail party, which was later reported in Harper's Monthly in 1937, two years before Leo Rosten used it at a banquet.