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Eric Lloyd Williams (1915–1988) was a South African-born journalist and war correspondent who covered World War II for the South African Press Association and Reuters. Lloyd Williams reported on the North African campaign of the British Eighth Army, which included troops from India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, among others. He covered El Alamein, the pivotal battle in 1942 that turned the tide in favour of the Allies in North Africa.〔El Alamein news coverage, Western Mail, Cardiff, 4 July 1942. See http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=16870035〕 In 1943, Lloyd Williams entered the Libyan capital, Tripoli, a key Axis base, on 23 January,〔Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/facts/10/40959892/January-23-1943-Tripoli-fell-to-British-8th〕 the day the Eighth Army captured it from the Germans.〔Combat Reporter, by Don Whitehead. See http://books.google.com/books?id=cF-qd7nKsWwC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22lloyd+williams%22+desert+ghetto&source=web&ots=iiOqX8LBf5&sig=miIMJiSZiQuJ8eSgOxX8osX-XEQ#v=onepage&q=%22lloyd%20williams%22%20desert%20ghetto&f=false〕 In May 1943, he entered Tunis six hours after it fell to the Allies, with the surrender of all German and Italian forces in North Africa.〔Interview with Cape Times, Cape Town, undated. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=17344909〕 Four months later he was with the Eighth Army when it invaded the toe of Italy from Sicily. He earned the nickname ''Benghazi'' while reporting from North Africa.〔South African newspaper column, undated, newspaper not identified. See http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=6813691〕 The Libyan port of Benghazi, a vital supply town, changed hands several times during the course of the fighting in 1941-42. In 1944 the Argus newspaper in Cape Town called Lloyd Williams "the outstanding South African war correspondent of this war".〔Alan Nash, Cape Argus. See http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=6518597〕 In his obituary in 1988, the Herald newspaper in Port Elizabeth described him as "South Africa's most distinguished war correspondent of the Second World War".〔Harry O'Connor, Herald, Port Elizabeth. See http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=6695621〕 == Best news story of 1943 == Lloyd Williams won the South African Society of Journalists trophy for the best news story of 1943 for a report on a dash through no man's land that he and two other correspondents made in Italy in September that year.〔Sapa news report, Johannesburg, 1944. See http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=140716319&albumID=938914&imageID=6695590〕 In his war journal he identifies one of the other correspondents as Daniel De Luce〔Los Angeles Times" http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/31/local/me-deluce31〕 of Associated Press but does not name the third.〔Eric Lloyd Williams' war journal, unpublished〕 The three men borrowed an army jeep and drove 160 km from the Eighth Army spearhead at Nicastro to the headquarters of the American Fifth Army in Salerno, to the north. The journey took two days and nights. At the time the Fifth Army was meeting stiff German resistance and struggling to break out of its Salerno beachhead.〔United States Army in World War II – The Ordnance Department on Beachhead and Battlefront, by Lida Mayo, page 173. Center of Military History, United States Army.See http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Beachhd_Btlefrnt/index.html#contents.〕 The Eighth Army had assumed the role of a relief force.〔The U.S Coast Guard in World War II, by Malcolm Francis Willoughby, page 235. See http://books.google.com/books?id=T5A9LCujs08C&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=american+fifth+army+salerno+anzio+beachhead+eighth+army&source=web&ots=G7SiMjf6ZW&sig=H82P_nq9O5MmIuEoAlnr4x25M_8〕 At first the correspondents believed army vehicles were ahead of them. When they realised this was not so, they considered turning back. "But no - curiosity prevails and we decide almost together to push ahead and see around a few corners," Lloyd Williams wrote in his journal.〔 He described the terrain they travelled through as "wild hill country steep above the sea where there is a great feeling of loneliness". But there were little towns too, including the seaside village of Maratea,〔See present-day photograph of Maratea coastline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maratea06.jpg〕 where they were welcomed with grapes and wine.〔 They pressed on towards Salerno. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Lloyd Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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