Stationed primarily in Scotland, he served as a radar officer and later as a combat correspondent.

In Vietnam, Dye was made a combat correspondent, one of only a handful in the Corps.

The combat correspondents were cut from a different cloth.

I drew the stick for combat correspondent.

Perhaps nothing shaped public perceptions of the war more than the Pentagon's program for combat correspondents.

He served as a combat correspondent aboard a troop ship on D-Day.

A combat correspondent testified that "he is not a fierce Marine.

Only this time, instead of plying his trade as combat correspondent, he is patrolling the boonies with the Vietcong.

After the Normandy invasion, he served as a combat correspondent in France and Germany, remaining with the newspaper for the rest of the war.

He caught America's eye as a combat correspondent in World War II and never lost it.