Mark Barnes

Jun 4, 2024 | thetimes.com | Athena Chrysanthou |Mark Barnes |Nick Mays |Cecilia Tombesi

The Times had many journalists and photographers on the ground during the 1944 invasion of Normandy. They were assigned to file stories from the war zone to appease the editor but they had to abide by strict censorship rules. The Allied Expeditionary Force employed officials known as field press censors, who reviewed journalists’ work in situ before it was transmitted back to the newsroom.

Jan 25, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Mark Barnes

The first instalment of the much-anticipated Second World War drama Masters of the Air will be shown on Friday, January 26. The drama, adapted from Donald L Miller’s successful history, tells the story of the bombing campaign of the US 8th air force through the lives of men serving with the “Bloody 100th” Bombardment Group based at RAF Thorpe Abbotts in Suffolk.