Seaghan Joseph Maynes (24 September 1916 in 65 Mill Street,(now Castle St) Belfast, Ireland[1]– 15 August 1998, New Malden, Surrey, England)[2][3][4] was a Reuters correspondent, best known for his on-the-ground coverage[5] of the Invasion of Normandy, the Reconstruction of Germany, and the 1948 Arab Israeli War.
During that time, he covered the D-Day landings, the Liberation of Paris, the Nuremberg Trials, the creation of the State of Israel, the Suez Crisis, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Army–McCarthy hearings, in Washington, D.C.
[citation needed] Maynes landed on D-Day with the other American airborne forces and he was accredited to General George S. Patton’s U.S. 3rd Army[7] for much of the campaign.
Maynes and Ernest Hemingway were the first accredited correspondents to enter Paris after the Normandy invasion, arriving two days before the city's liberation by Allied Forces.
Maynes retired from Reuters in 1978 and died on 15 August 1998, in Kingston, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.