Lou Azrael
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Lou Azrael was a journalist who spent most of his six decade career in Baltimore, but who also served, notably, as a war correspondent, during World War II.[1] Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson honored war correspondents, including Azrael, at an event in Washington, on November 23, 1946.[2] In 1949 he received the Medal of Freedom (1945)|Medal of Freedom from Dwight D. Eisenhower.[1] Azrael started working for his first newspaper, the Baltimore Sun in 1920, when he was sixteen.[1] During his career he worked for three other papers, the Baltimore News, the Baltimore Daily Post and The News American. He was embedded with the 29th Infantry Division (United States)|29th Infantry Division, and provided frontline reporting on its activities from the Invasion of Normandy, through the Battle of the Bulge, to Victory in Europe. References
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