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Column: How little books, millions of them, helped in Word War II
Herman Kogan served as a combat correspondent and Marine sergeant in key WWII Pacific battles, including Guadalcanal and Okinawa, before returning to his Chicago hometown.
- In World War II, Herman Kogan, U.S. Marine Corps sergeant and combat correspondent, fought in and reported from Pacific battles including Guadalcanal and Okinawa.
- In an image from his family archive, the Kogan family photo shows Herman Kogan sitting on a log on a beach, part of a family recollection shared by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune.
- Taken during a pause in the fighting, the 1943 wartime photograph captures an informal moment amid active operations in the South Pacific pause in fighting.
- Kogan made it back to Chicago, surviving the Pacific fighting and linking his wartime reports to local readership through family-shared images.
- That beach photograph underscores the informal, human side of combat correspondence during World War II, as the Kogan family photo ties frontline reporting to Chicago readership via family sharing.
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Column: How little books, millions of them, helped in Word War II
CHICAGO -- I have a photo of my father, sitting on a log on a beach somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. Herman Kogan was a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, a combat correspondent who fought in and…
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