Robertson, Ben, 1903-1943
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War correspondent. Ben Robertson was killed Feb. 22, 1943, in the crash of the Yankee Clipper en route to London, England.
Benjamin Franklin Robertson, Jr., born June 22, 1903 in the Calhoun Community of Clemson, South Carolina; 1924 graduated Clemson Agricultural College; 1926 degree in journalism, University of Missouri and reporter for Honolulu Star-Bulletin in Hawaii; 1927 on staff of The News; Adelaide, Australia; 1929-1934 New York Herald Tribune and AP; 1935 United Press, Anderson Independent (SC); 1937 returned to associated press; 1938 published Traveler's Rest; 1940 War correspondent in England for PM; 1941 I saw England; 1942 Red Hills and Cotton and correspondent for PM and The Chicago Sun in Guam, Midway, India, Russia, and Egypt. Also rejoined staff of New York Herald Tribune, December 1942; February 22, 1943 killed in crash of the Yankee Clipper en route to London to head the British office of the NYHT.
Journalist and author; native of Pickens County, S.C.
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