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    • Wilfred Burchett

    Australian journalist

    Wilfred Burchett

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    Born

    Wilfred Graham Burchett


    ()16 September

    Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Died27 September () (aged&#;72)

    Sofia, Bulgaria

    Resting placeCentral Sofia Cemetery
    NationalityAustralian
    OccupationJournalist
    Spouses

    Erna Lewy, née Hammer

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    Vesselina (Vessa) Ossikovska

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    Children4
    RelativesStephanie Alexander (niece)

    Wilfred Graham Burchett (16 September – 27 September ) was an Australian journalist known for being the first western journalist to report from Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and for his reporting from "the other side" during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

    Burchett began his journalism at the start of World War II, during which he reported from China, Burma and Japan and covered the war in the Pacific. After the war he rep