OPINION — Dwight Eisenhower had reached his decision. And when Ike put his foot down, that was the end of things. After all, as the supreme allied commander in Europe, personally responsible for planning the largest military invasion in human history, his plate was overflowing with priorities.
But that didn’t fly with a feisty 35-year-old newspaper reporter. So when Eisenhower decreed that no women journalists would accompany the initial Allied landings on French beaches during the coming D-Day invasion, Martha Gellhorn shrugged it off. There was no way someone was going to keep her from missing out on not only the biggest story of the year but one of the biggest of the entire war. She would simply switch to Plan B.
All she had to do now was come up with Plan B.
