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World-weary and unassuming, Scripps-Howard reporter Ernie Pyle wrote columns about the everyday trials and triumphs of ordinary GIs. His "worm's-eye view" of warfare endeared him to soldiers and civilians alike. His death on a Pacific island in 1945 was front-page news in the United States. Above, Pyle signs an autograph aboard a ship in the Pacific shortly before his death. |