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Below, the typewriter than Ernie Pyle carried across the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific and, at left, a manuscript for one of his columns, titled "The Ways of D-E Sailors." Below left, a GI entrenching tool Pyle used when he was in the field.
World-weary and unassuming, Scripps-Howard reporter Ernie Pyle wrote columns about the everyday trials and triumphs of ordinary GIs. His "worms-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. |