The bombing of Gernika
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1937 he was sent to report on the Spanish Civil War. He won prominence with his report on the bombing of Guernica on April 26, 1937. His telegram to London described German bomb casings and the use of thermite as an incendiary to create a firestorm in the center of the town. His reporting did much to inspire Pablo Picasso to record the atrocity for posterity in his massive painting.
