No: 61
Date: 9/1/1995
Name: Lawrence Youngman, Bill Billotte, Ray Clark
On the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, three war correspondents were recognized. The World-Herald's Youngman is shown in a jeep using a typewriter while riding through a muddy European battlefield. Billotte wrote about fighting in Okinawa and the Philippines. He is shown standing on a Pacific Island battlefield holding a Speed Graphic camera with the USS Missouri in the background. He covered the Japanese surrender from aboard the battleship. In the background is Ray Clark, a WOW Radio war correspondent who reported while flying in a B-29 on a bombing raid over Japan. Billotte later became a World-Herald crime reporter and retired in 1975 after 43 years. He has since died. Youngman founded Travel and Transport Inc. Clark became a WOW-TV and WOW Radio newscaster. The Face was part of Omaha's Victory '95 weekend, which Col. Barney Oldfield got off to a great start with entertaining stories about his days as an Army PR man. Back to Top