BENNINGTON, Vt. — W.C. "Bill" Heinz, a sportswriter and author who witnessed the Normandy invasion on D-Day, covered some of the greatest sports events of the 1940s and helped write the book "MASH," has died. He was 93.

His daughter, Gayl Heinz of Amesbury, Mass., said he died early today in Bennington. The cause of death was not released.

A New York native, he attended Middlebury College in the 1930s and then went on to become a reporter at the New York Sun.

During World War II, he reported from Europe. After the war he covered sports, including Babe Ruth's emotional last appearance at Yankee Stadium in 1948. In the mid-60s, he helped Maine physician H. Richard Hornburger write the book about a mobile army surgical hospital in the Korean War.