Bernard Covit Survives Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Manila to Make it Home

Referring back to a post some weeks ago detailing an inside report on life in Japanese occupied Shanghai that appeared in Liberty magazine in January 1944 (click here). The author was Bernard (sometimes Bernhard, or just Bert) Covit (1907-1978), Brooklyn-born and a former newspaperman with the New York Post who had witnessed the bombing at the Great World Amusement Palace in Shanghai on Bloody Saturday August 14th 1937. He moved on to the AP Bureau in Manila and ended up in several Japanese-run Civilian Internment Camps in the Philippines. Eventually he made it onto the Gripsholm evacuation ship back to America, arriving to meet the media as you can see below.

Covit went on to remain involved in Asian affairs – editing several books on the South Seas and Tahiti. After the war I think he also worked in radio with WPIX, New York, and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

(PS: his name is spelled with two t’s in the article below but I believe he spelt it with just one)