He went ashore with the American 4th Infantry Division (United States), but his cables from June 6 were lost by Navy couriers en route to London.
[2] Twelve days later, on the June 18 edition of CBS World News Today, LeSueur gave his account of landing at Normandy and witnessing the Allied bombings across the beaches, the surrenders of Nazi soldiers, and his eventual arrival to the skirmish in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont just hours after the landings.
[8] LeSueur also penned a book in 1943, Twelve Months That Changed the World, about important Eastern Front battles he covered in 1941 and 1942 for CBS.
[2] After the war ended LeSueur became CBS's White House correspondent and covered the Paris Peace Conference.
[9][10] A year later, as moderator of the CBS Television show United Nations in Action, he won another Peabody Award.
LeSueur's last appearance on CBS Radio came in 1999, when he appeared with former Murrow's Boys colleagues Richard C. Hottelet, Howard K. Smith, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, and other former radio colleagues Robert Trout and Ed Bliss for a 20th-century roundup show.
[2] His wife, Dorothy, told CBS News that on his death, he was listening to former Secretary of State Colin Powell address the UN on the evidence surrounding Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in the run-up to the Iraq War.