Landing of Doomsday It was in 1944 when Collier's Weekly needed a reporter to cover the landings of D-Day (Doomsday) in France. D-Day (JUne 6, 1944) was the day when the Allied troops (more than 160,000) landing along a "50 mile stretch of heavily-fortified Frenc coastline" to fight Nazi Germany, and accept nothing more than victory. For this day, more than 5000 ships and 13000 aircrafts were used. Collier's Weekly needed a reporter to go and report on such a massive and dangerous event, and this time, the magazine didn't want Martha Gellhorn to be their reporter. They wanted Ernest Hemingway. Determined as she was, Gellhorn went to cover the landings anyway. Gellhorn was willing to go to great lengths to cover a story. Although she faced some restrictions as a women reporter, she did not let that influence her writing. To report the D-Day landings, Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship, and spent invasion day helping with the casualties, and then at night, she would go to Omaha beach with medical teams. Hemingway, who was also reporting, didn't make it to the beach although he did travel on a landing craft and sent back reports full of bravado.