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Aug 03, 1900 Dana, Indiana, United States Died on 18 Apr 1945 (aged 44)

American war correspondent and writer

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About Ernie Pyle

  • Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II.
  • 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 (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa. At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents.
  • His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide.
  • President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told.
  • He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen."

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