Washington Post Military Correspondent George C. Wilson Dies at 86

By: Martin Weil | The Washington Post

George C. Wilson, an author and former Washington Post reporter who covered the military from the perspective of soldiers crawling in the mud and from the offices of decision-makers in Washington, and who played a notable role in the Pentagon Papers case, died Feb. 11 at his home in Arlington County. He was 86.

The cause was leukemia, said his son, Jim Wilson.