Robert Perkins Post (September 8, 1910 – February 26, 1943) worked as a reporter for the New York Times during World War II. He was part of a group of eight reporters, known as the Legion of the Doomed or the Writing 69th, selected to fly bomber missions with United States Eighth Air Force.Early lifePost was the son of a well-to-do New York lawyer; his family summered in a mansion called Strandhome on Long Island's Great South Bay.