Lou Azrael (1904-1981) was a journalist who spent most of his six decade career in

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, but who also served, notably, as a war correspondent, during World War II. Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson honored war correspondents, including Azrael, at an event in Washington, on November 23, 1946. In 1949 he received the Medal of Freedom from Dwight D. Eisenhower. Azrael started working for his first newspaper, the ''

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'' in 1920, when he was sixteen. During his career he worked for three other papers, the '' Baltimore News'', the '' Baltimore Daily Post'' and ''

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''. He was embedded with the 29th Infantry Division, and provided frontline reporting on its activities from the

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, through the Battle of the Bulge, to

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Azrael, Lou 1904 births 1981 deaths War correspondents