[1] Beginning in 1940, McGlincy reported for the United Press bureau out of London, where he roomed with colleague Walter Cronkite, who he remained friends with for the rest of his life.
[2][3] In 1945 McGlincy joined a hand-picked group of airborne correspondents organized by Tex McCrary to cover the Twentieth Air Force.
The press corps toured Europe in the weeks after V-E Day in a custom B-17 fitted with high-powered shortwave radio equipment.
They started with Paris and moved on to examine first-hand the destruction from the Allied bombing campaigns on Hamburg and Dresden[4] Over the following few months the group toured Asia, making stops in China, French Indochina, Thailand, Burma, the Malay States, and Java.
In this city you can smell the stench of death as it used to stink from the bodies of dead Germans who were left to bloat in the summer sun in Normandy.
In this city you can see in the eyes of the few Japanese picking through the ruins all the hate it is possible for a human to muster.During a stop in Saigon in September 1945, James McGlincy and CBS correspondent Bill Downs were invited for lunch with Colonel A. Peter Dewey at a villa being used as the headquarters for the OSS operation in the region.