Middleton was willing, iirc, to get off his butt and out of HQ and travel at least near to the front lines—or was that Baldwin?
I reviewed Middleton’s long entry in the index by author and found that he was primarily a headquarters guy. After Torch he filed a number of stories from the front lines and he spent a month or so in France after D-Day but mostly he was at “Allied Headquarters in North Africa” or SHAEF HQ. Baldwin rarely leaves New York and when he does it is usually for Washington D.C.
We have often discussed Baldwin but Middleton not so much. Still, by following these threads I have developed great respect for his reporting and insight. He was not an Ernie Pyle front line guy, but he seemed to have the ability to penetrate the fog of war and explain what was really going on. Of course, if he could stand with Ike and shoot the breeze, he probably had some darn good sources.