RIP Clare Hollingworth - Broke the news of WWII

[bayonetbrant]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/media/clare-hollingworth-reporter-who-broke-news-of-world-war-ii-dies-at-105.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Driving alone on the road from Gleiwitz, then in Germany, to Katowice, in Poland — a distance of less than 20 miles — she watched as the wind lifted a piece of the tarpaulin that had been erected on the German side to screen the valley below from view.

Through the opening, Ms. Hollingworth saw, she later wrote, "large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns" concealed in the valley.

She knew then that Germany was poised for a major military incursion. Hastening back across the border to the Polish side, she telephoned her editor with the news, a world exclusive.

The date was Aug. 28, 1939, and her article, published the next day, would become, as the British paper The Guardian wrote in 2015, "probably the greatest scoop of modern times."

[steve58]

RIP Clare.  Sounds like she lived a very full and colorful life.