Cornelius Ryan

Raised in Dublin, educated at Synge Street CBS and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, he moved to London in 1940 and became a Daily Telegraph war correspondent. He covered the European air war, flew on fourteen USAAF bombing missions, joined Patton’s Third Army, and later reported from the Pacific. After the war he covered the birth of Israel, worked for Time in the United States, and contributed t… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources