Barbara Wace

Barbara Wace (4 September 1907 – 16 January 2003) was a British journalist. She worked for the Foreign Office in Berlin and Washington, D.C., joining the British Information Service during the 1940s. She became a journalist for the Associated Press (AP), covering the Allied invasion in France as the first British female reporter to report on the invasion following D-Day. After the end of World War II, Wace travelled around the world as a freelancer for a number of publications, including National Geographic, The Manchester Guardian and The New York Times.