Ernie Pyle
American war correspondent and writer (1900-1945) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 44
Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II.
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Ernie Pyle birthplace in Dana, Indiana
Pyle (center, with goggles) with a crew from the US Army's 191st Tank Battalion at the Anzio beachhead in 1944
Pyle at Anzio, Italy, 1944
Pyle shares a cigarette with Marines on Okinawa
Pyle shortly after being killed by enemy gunfire
Ernie Pyle funeral
The Ernie Pyle Memorial on Iejima, JapanAwards
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Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942-44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa.
