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. After approval, journalists took their images and stories to transmission services, which were not usually located near the censors’ base.
