Jean Marie de Premonville
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A French war correspondent, Jean-Marie de Prémonville de Maisonthou covered the Korean War for the Agence France-Presse before being killed by machinegun fire while riding with a patrol on February 12, 1951 during the battle of Chipyong-Ni.
He had initially been sent to replace AFP correspondent Maximilien Philomenko who had been killed earlier.[1]
He co-authored the book "Return to Korea: Tales of 4 War Correspondents on the Korean Front", published by Rene Juilliard in 1951, along with Serge Bromberger, Philippe Baudy and Henri de Turenne.[2]
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