Charles Burchill Lynch
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| Born | Charles Burchill Lynch December 3, 1919 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | July 21, 1994 (aged 74) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist and Author |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Politics |
Charles Burchill Lynch, OC (3 December 1919 – 21 July 1994) was a Canadian journalist and author.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Canadian parents, he moved with his family to Saint John, New Brunswick when he was two weeks old. In 1936, he started his career in journalism with the Saint John Citizen and then moved on to the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, followed by the Canadian Press in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lynch was appointed Vancouver bureau chief of the British United Press in 1940. The following year, he was transferred to Toronto to assume the position of divisional manager.
In 1943, Lynch joined Reuters News Agency as a World War II correspondent. He was one of nine Canadian reporters to accompany troops ashore on D-Day, landing with them at Juno Beach. Others included veteran correspondent Matthew Halton of the CBC, Ross Munro and William Stewart of the Canadian Press, Ralph Allen of the Globe and Mail and Marcel Ouimet for Radio-Canada, the CBC's French-language service.
Lynch's presence on Juno Beach is featured in Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book The Longest Day. When homing pigeons used by the correspondents flew towards the German lines, Lynch is quoted in the book as having screamed at the pigeons that they were "Traitors! Damn traitors!". In the 1962 hit film based on Ryan's book, a fictionalized portrayal of Lynch's pigeon accusation is shown taking place on Sword Beach, by a British correspondent.
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