War Fronts Home Fires

<p><strong>As a World War II newspaper correspondent </strong> B.J. McQuaid covered<strong> American and British front lines</strong> from the frozen <strong>Aleutian Islands</strong> of Alaska to the steaming jungles and seas of the<strong> South Pacific</strong> at <strong>Tarawa and Guadalcanal </strong>and then to<strong> Europe from D-Day forward in France Belgium Holland and Germany</strong>.</p><p> He interviewed <strong>Sir Bernard Law Montgomery</strong> during the<strong> Battle of the Bulge</strong> and went toe-to-toe with <strong>U.S. Third Army General George S. Patton</strong>. He was separated from his wife and two small children for three years.</p><p>He interviewed and got the names of frontline soldiers and sailors providing a link to their families back home in towns and cities across the United States. His stories ran in more than 80 American newspapers through the Chicago Daily News Service.</p><p>Peg McQuaid his wife was keeping the <strong>Home Fires </strong>burning back in <strong> New Hampshire</strong> providing for herself and their two small children. She dealt with food oil and gasoline rationing while writing faithfully and regularly to her husband overseas.</p><p>Theirs is a story of love of sacrifice and of hope. Even 80 years after D-Day in Europe it will still resonate with many Americans.</p><p> </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>