Joseph L. Galloway
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Joseph L. "Joe" Galloway is the Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers.
Galloway started his career at the Victoria Daily Advocate in Texas, afterwards working for United Press International (UPI) in the Kansas City and Topeka bureaus. Later, he served overseas as bureau chief or regional manager in Tokyo, Vietnam, Jakarta, New Delhi, Singapore, Moscow, and Los Angeles.
During the Vietnam War, Galloway served three tours in Vietnam for UPI, beginning in early 1965. Decorated for rescuing wounded American soldiers under heavy enemy fire during the battle at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, he was the only civilian awarded the Bronze Star by the U.S. Army during that war.[1] Along with Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, Galloway co-authored a detailed account of those experiences in the best-selling 1992 book, We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young. He was portrayed by actor Barry Pepper in the 2002 movie based on the book, We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Moore.
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| Journalists - R.W. Apple, Peter Arnett, Peter Braestrup, Malcolm Browne, Wilfred Burchett, Dickey Chapelle, Judith Coburn, Bernard Fall, Frances FitzGerald, Murray Fromson, Joseph L. Galloway, Martha Gellhorn, David Halberstam, Michael Herr, Seymour Hersh, Bernard Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Dale Minor, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, Clete Roberts, John Sack, Morley Safer, Jonathan Schell, Sydney Schanberg, Neil Sheehan, Olivier Todd
Photographers - Eddie Adams, Larry Burrows, Robert Capa, Charles Chellapah, David Douglas Duncan, Charles Eggleston, Dirck Halstead, Henri Huet, Catherine Leroy, Tim Page |
