| 1 | Dorothea | Lange | Photojournalist. |
| | Fletcher | Roebuck | Military photographer. |
| | Olivia James | Harper | War photographer. Jane's friend. aka: Liv. |
| | Britt | | Woman who assisted Jane in the party. aka: Britty. |
| | Jane | Tyler | Protagonist. Nashville reporter. |
| | Charles | Harper | Liv's husband.The New York Daily Press editor-in-chief. |
| 2 | Ruth | Cowan | AP journalist. |
| | Marie | Page | Reporter from Ladies' Home Journal. Jane's friend. |
| | Margaret | Bourke-White | American photographer. |
| | | Eisenhower | General. |
| | Annette | Roberts | Nurse from Asbury Park. |
| | Joey | | Annette's patient from Toms River. Deceased. |
| | Mr. | Lugosi | Surgeon. Liv and Jane's new acquaintance. aka: The Count. |
| | Robert | Capa | War photographer. |
| | Frank | Scherschel | Photojournalist. |
| | Ralph | Morse | Photojournalist. |
| | Mr. | Stahlman | Owner of a Nashville banner. |
| | Mrs. | Stahlman | Mr. Stahlman's wife. |
| 3 | | | Chateau de Vouilly - The US's first army press camp. |
| | Edward (1) | | Fletcher's brother. |
| | Elizabeth H. | Smythe | Fletcher's girlfriend. |
| | Alexandrine | Hamel | A woman who provides homes to foreign journalists. |
| | Matt | Halton | Canadian reporter. |
| | Charles | Lynch | Canadian reporter. |
| | Edward (2) | | Fletcher's co-worker. Deceased. |
| | Ernest | Hemingway | Collier's reporter. |
| | Martha | Gellhorn | Collier's reporter. Ernest's wife. |
| | General | Macarthur | The five-star General. |
| | Julien | Bryan | English photographer. Charles's former co-worker. |
| | A.J. | Liebling | American journalist at the New Yorker. |
| | Monk | Dickson | Correspondent. |
| 4 | Eleanor | Roosevelt | The President's wife. |
| | Geoffrey | | Liv's brother. |
| | Jerome | Neff | Grave registration staff. Jane's new acquaintance. |
| | Thomas | Stahlman | Jane's former love. Mr. Stahlman's son. aka: Tommy. |
| | Helen | Kirkpatrick | American war correspondent. Sole newspaper representative. |
| | Jeanne | Bohec | Sharpshooter. |
| | Mrs. | Shipley | Head of US immigration and naturalization. |
| | Hank | Bend | Objector from Colorado Springs. |
| | | Gerhardt | Military. |
| | Iris | Carpenter | BBC correspondent. |
| 5 | Major Thomas | D. Howie | Commander at the 166th Infantry. Lead the attack on Saint Lo. |
| 6 | Catherine | Coyne | Journalist. |
| | Cept | Cecily | Girl playing dice. Someone Jane met. |
| | Emily | | Cept's friend. |
| | Ella | | Emily's friend. A girl who hasn't spoken since her mother died. |
| 7 | Mrs. | Serle | A woman who lived on the servant's floor at Stahlmans. |
| | Mrs. | Tyler | Jane's mother. |
| 8 | Wes | Gallagher | Associated press North African Bureau Chief. |
| | General | Bradley | The commanding officer of the American troops. |
| | Ernie | Pyle | Scripps-Howard columnist. |
| 9 | Sonia | Tomara | Journalist from the Italian Front. |
| 10 | John Stephen | Wever | Photojournalist. |
| | Baron von | Flash | Gunner. aka: The Mighty Brit. |
| 11 | Bede | Irvin | AP photographer who died in war. |
| 12 | Lee | Miller | Photojournalist at the siege of St. Malo. |
| | | | W-w-w-wobbly - The finest gun in Normandy. |
| | Bill | Singleton | W-w-w-wobbly's gun teammate. |
| | Willy | | Bill's gun teammate. |
| | Wade | | Bill's gun teammate. |
| | Walter | | Bill's gun teammate. |
| | Warren | | Bill's gun teammate. |
| 13 | John | Macvane | BBC radioman. |
| | Hal | Boyle | AP correspondent. |
| | Oscar | Miller | Liv's friend. |
| | Major Jerry | Papurt | The man Margaret hooked up with. |
| 14 | Andy | Rooney | Young American journalist. |
| | Harry | Harris | Star and Stripes journalist. Andy's companion. |
| | Bert | Barndt | Star and Stripes journalist. Andy's companion. |
| | Pierre | Bourdan | French journalist who was captured at his car at Rennes. |
| | Andre | Rabache | French journalist who was captured at his car at Rennes. |
| | Piere | Gosset | French journalist who was captured at his car at Rennes. |
| | Bill | Stringer | American journalist. Reuters photographer. |
| 16 | Dietrich | von Choltitz | General commander in Paris. |
| | | Leclerc | French general. |
| | Tom | Teanor | LA Times journalist. |
| | Bruce | Grant | Chicago Times journalist. |
| 18 | Charles | Luizet | Leclerc's roommate. |
| 19 | General | der Luftwaffe | General in Paris. |
| | Louis | Regamey | Agent-general for the Canadian National Railway. |
| 20 | Andrew | | Clarinet player. Fletcher's friend. |
| | Janet | Flanner | New York columnist. |
| | Charles | Collingwood | CBS reporter. |
| 21 | John | McVane | NBC reporter. |
| | William | Shirer | American journalist from CBS. |
| 22 | Virginia | Irwin | St. Louis post-dispatch journalist. |
| 24 | Dickey | Chapelle | Photojournalist. |
| | Mary | Alice | Jane's 3rd grade teacher. |
| 26 | General | Hobbs | Commanding officer in Germany. Fletcher's new acquaintance. |
| 27 | | Stewart | The military officer who talked to General Hobbs. |
| | Captain | Sixberry | Fletcher's new acquaintance. |
| | Bird | | Stewart's partner. Man who accompanied Jane to the caves. |
| 28 | Winston | Churchill | Prime minister. |
| 30 | Paul | Simons | Dutch soldier. |
| | Smeets | Huynen | Woman who hides in the basement. |
| 32 | Josephine | Herbst | Journalist. |
| 34 | W. Eugene | Smith | Photojournalist. |
| | Jeremy | James | Geoffrey's grandson. |
| | Renny | | Geoffrey's sister. |