The reporter who discovered WWII thanks to a freak gust of wind has died

The reporter who discovered WWII thanks to a freak gust of wind has died

It was August 1939, and a 26-year-old British journalist on her first assignment for the Daily Telegraph was driving on a German highway near the Polish border. She saw a fleet of German motorcycle messengers speed past her car. And then, as she watched, a gust of wind lifted the flaps of massive canvas barriers…