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W. W. Chaplin
WILLIAM WATTS CHAPLIN (1895-1978) was an American war correspondent and former U.S. soldier. Born on March 27, 1895, Chaplin fought in France during World War I with the American Expeditionary Forc...view moreWILLIAM WATTS CHAPLIN (1895-1978) was an American war correspondent and former U.S. soldier. Born on March 27, 1895, Chaplin fought in France during World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) and served as a foreign correspondent in England, France and Italy. During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, which took place from October 3, 1935 until 1939, Chaplin reported directly from the frontline in Ethiopia, and published his war diary recounting his experiences in 1936. Chaplin died in August 1978.
FLOYD PHILLIPS GIBBONS (July 16, 1887 - September 23, 1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio’s first news reporters and commentators, he began as a police reporter on the Minneapolis Daily News. He moved to the Minneapolis Tribune in 1907, and to the Chicago Tribune in 1912. He became well known for covering the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, and for reporting on the 1917 torpedoing of the British ship RMS Laconia, on which he was a passenger. In 1919 he became the chief of the Chicago Tribune’s foreign service, and editor of the paper’s Paris edition. He later wrote novels and became a radio commentator for NBC.view less