Dear Subscriber

To answer some of the questions subscribers all over the world have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

On the eve of the invasion, you might like to know something about the preparations TIME & LIFE have made to cover for you what may very well be the greatest military epic in our country's history.

For months we have been building up our staff in England. Today some of these correspondents are getting set to follow our forces into action by land, sea and air, and send back eyewitness stories for you. Others will be at their stations in England, to interview men returning from missions, to get last minute news from Headquarters, to interpret that news and round out the whole story.

Between now and DDay, each correspondent will be given his assignment in secret. Here are a few of the veterans on our team:

This is Walter Graebner, top man for TIME & LIFE in London almost continuously since 1938, except for the critical Stalingrad months he spent in Russia as head of our Moscow office. As one of the most knowing and respected American correspondents in England, he will stay behind in London to supervise the whole show for you.

This is Charles Wertenbaker who, as Senior Editor of TIME, was for many months in charge of all TIME'S news-reporting on the war and foreign news. No armchair editor, he spent four months at the front in Tunisia, followed our armies to Gafsa, Maknassy, El Guettar and almost to Mateur. He will be top man on the actual invasion team.

This is Jack Belden, veteran of the war in China, of Stilwell's retreat from Burma and Montgomery's desert victory, of the Mareth Line, of Sicily and of Salerno, where he was so badly wounded during the first landings that he spent months in a hospital. It was only last week, still limping, he was able to get off to the wars again.

This is William White, who covered the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, the landing at Oran and the North African campaign, was with our troops when they went into actionat Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar, Fondouk.

This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle.

This is Mary Welsh, who covered the Battle of France for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, got out .of Paris two jumps ahead of the Nazis, helped cover the Battle of Britain for TIME. Graebner has described her as "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London."

I wish I had room to tell you about all the others TIME & LIFE have mobilized for you Somewhere in England--about Wilmott Ragsdale, Sherry Mangan, Jacqueline Saix, Jeffrey Mark, Dennis Scanlan.

But this week I don't have space even to give you all their names.

Cordially,

P. I. Prentice

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