Category: Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle: The WWII Journalist in the Trenches

June 16, 2023
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While most World War II correspondents focused on casualty rates, war strategies, and equipment losses, Ernie Pyle wrote in a sense-of-place style that endeared him not only to American soldiers, but also to their friends and family members at home. Newspapers touted wide-angle news, but Pyle captured the jots and tittles. Sometimes his prose elicited…

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Book Review: ‘Brave Men’: War Correspondent Ernie Pyle in World War II

March 29, 2023
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Ernie Pyle was the most beloved war correspondent of World War II. He covered the war from North Africa to Northern France in the European theater before going to the Pacific to report on the Okinawa invasion. “Brave Men,” originally published in 1944, is a classic collection of Pyle’s writings. It covers his activities from…

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Ernie Pyle: The G.I.’s Buddy

January 18, 2023
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A monument stands on Ie Shima (now known as Iejima), off the coast of Okinawa’s main island, honoring a man who fought in World War II with a pen rather than a rifle. His name was Ernie Pyle, a U.S. journalist who found his calling as the preeminent war correspondent of World War II. Pyle…

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