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Joe McQuaid — War Fronts Home Fires:
A WWII Correspondent’s Remarkable Coverage,
His Wife’s Indomitable Spirit.
HEBRON – New Hampshire
signing will take place Saturday,
action from the frozen Aleutian
New Hampshire scrambling to Islands to the steaming jungles
provide for herself and their two author, journalist, publisher,
December 7, at 1:00 pm at the
and seas of the South Pacific, at
small children. She dealt with Union Congregational Church,
and editor of the New Hamp-
16 Church Lane, in Hebron,
shire Union Leader and Sun-
Tarawa and Guadalcanal. He
food, oil, and gasoline rationing day News, Joe McQuaid, will
landed on Utah Beach, accom-
and wrote faithfully and regu- NH. The event is open to the
panied General Patton’s light-
larly to her husband overseas. public.
join the Hebron Town Library
to present a quintessential New
As it did with millions of
ning-fast drive across France,
War Fronts, Home Fires show- Hampshire story about his par-
saw the liberation of Paris and
cases his remarkable reportage, Americans, World War II up-
a death camp in Holland. He
his wife’s indomitable spirit, and ended the lives of B.J. and Peg
ent’s experiences during World
McQuaid. As noted in the book
War II, with his new book: War
interviewed Sir Bernard Law
their touching love story. A story Fronts Home Fires: A WWII
Montgomery and reported on
which still resonates with many cover, he was a frontline war
the heroism in the Battle of
Americans 80 years later. correspondent for the Chicago
Correspondent's Remarkable
Daily News Service where his
Coverage, His Wife's Indomita-
the Bulge. He interviewed and
Joseph W. McQuaid is the ble Spirit.
named countless soldiers and
author of Cog Days, William stories ran in over 80 Ameri-
sailors in his reporting providing
Loeb, and His Times. As a re- can newspapers. He witnessed
Sponsored by the Hebron
American and British front-line
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a welcome link to their families
porter, editor, and publisher of Joe McQuaid—War Fronts Home
the state’s largest newspaper, he Fires: A WWII Correspondent’s
Remarkable Coverage, His Wife’s
covered sports, politics, and the Indomitable Spirit.
military, including overseas re- back home.
porting from Europe, the Mid- MJC TREES
He was separated from his
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