John Franklin MacVane (April 29, 1912 – January 28, 1984) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
Throughout the war he provided eyewitness radio reports on major events, including the London Blitz, the Dieppe Raid, the Allied invasion of Italy, and the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach.
[1] Prior to World War II, he worked as a print journalist for the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Sun.
[2][3] MacVane began his career as a war correspondent reporting from France for the International News Service.
[8] MacVane continued to report from the Western Front until the fall of Berlin, and witnessed the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe near the end of the war.