Winners

• 1942: Laurence Edmund Allen of the Associated Press
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   for his stories of the activities of the British Mediterranean Fleet, written as an accredited correspondent attached to the fleet.
• 1943: Ira Wolfert
  Ira Wolfert
  Ira Wolfert was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer.He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1930, he graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism with a bachelors degree....
  
   of North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. for his series of three articles on the fifth battle of the Solomons
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• 1944: Daniel De Luce of the Associated Press
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   for his distinguished reporting during the year 1943.
• 1945: Mark S. Watson of The Baltimore Sun
  The Baltimore Sun
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  for his distinguished reporting during the year 1944 from Washington
  Washington, D.C.
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  , London
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   and the fronts in Sicily
  Sicily
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  , Italy
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  , and France
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• 1946: Homer Bigart
  Homer Bigart
  Homer William Bigart was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 to 1955 and the New York Times from 1955 to his retirement in 1972...
  
   of the New York Herald Tribune
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  for his distinguished reporting during the year 1945 from the Pacific war theatre
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• 1947: Eddy Gilmore of the Associated Press
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  for his correspondence from Moscow in 1946.