[B.F.M. Droog]

Hello all,

I've just read The First Casualty. From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, by Phillip Knightley, Harvest Book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, New York and London, 1975.

Pages 217 to 333 cover the Second World War. Censorship was very strict (stricter than I thought possible), so I can hardly imagine that the Sgt Scratch story would have been published in Allied newspapers during war time.

The only newspapers of those days that possibly would have published this story would be German or Japanese newspapers or newspapers based in neutral countries. My guess is that they didn't, because they didn't know.

Regards,

Bart