Yet according to Stanley Cloud, co-author with Lynne Olson of "The Murrow Boys," Mr. Mickelson was sometimes defied by his more famous colleagues.

Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II.

By Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson.

Similarly, the authors - Stanley Cloud, a former Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, and Lynne Olson, a former reporter who teaches journalism at American University - sometimes indulge in amateur psychoanalysis.

Their story is the subject of the 1996 book The Murrow Boys, by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson.

All this is well-documented by the authors: Stanley Cloud, a former Washington bureau chief for Time, and Lynne Olson, a former White House correspondent for The Baltimore Sun.

With her husband, Stanley Cloud, Ms. Olson, a former White House correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, has written two books on wartime Britain, "A Question of Honor" and "The Murrow Boys."

According to Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, the authors of "The Murrow Boys" (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), Mr. Smith and his boss had a bitter argument.

Listen to Lynn Olsen & Stanley Cloud, authors of "A Question of Honor", speak about the "Kościuszko" Squadron and Polish contribution to World War II here.