death_place death_date children birth_place article_title birth_date employer name occupation death_cause
mauthausen-gusen concentration camp , upper austria 24 january 1945 one of joseph 's death -rrb- -lrb- 11 month old girl by the time st. joseph , buchanan county , missouri , usa joseph morton -lrb- correspondent -rrb-
 1911 or 1913 -lsb- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;grid=93790018] associated press joseph `` joe '' morton war correspondent execution by shooting
joseph morton -lrb- correspondent -rrb-

joseph `` joe '' morton was an american war correspondent for the associated press -lrb- ap -rrb- in the european theater during world war ii .
on december 26 , 1944 , a nazi counter-partisan unit named `` edelweiss '' stormed a log cabin high on homolka mountain in today 's slovakia which housed 15 allied intelligence officers , a slovak officer , a slovak-american interpreter , two slovak civilian resistance fighters , and morton himself , covering an oss operation in the country for a story .
although the allied officers were duly uniformed and morton had a war correspondent id in order to be treated as prisoners of war according to the geneva convention -lrb- 1929 -rrb- , the ss headquarters , in compliance with commando order , which stated that all allied commandos should be killed immediately without trial even those in proper uniforms , ordered the summary execution of allied officers and others caught in the act .
on january 24 , 1945 , joseph morton , along with 13 allied officers , was executed at the mauthausen-gusen concentration camp .
he was the only allied correspondent to be executed by the axis during world war ii .
