Letters Home-80 Years Later: Dana Adams Schmidt 1915-1994

WWII through the articles and personal letters of an award-winning journalist.

Dana Adams Schmidt was born in Bay Village, Ohio in 1915 to a German/Austrian father and a mother from a prominent American family with roots to the early settlers. He was a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont California and the Columbia School of Journalism.

This account of his life as a news correspondent throughout pre- and post-World War II is the great achievement of his sister, Elizabeth Schmidt Crahan, u...