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Ernie Pyle, WWII Correspondent
Submitted by Pat Beekman on Sat, 04/18/2015 - 14:07
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Ernie Pyle, famed WWII journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, was killed by enemy fire on April 18, 1945 on Iejima, Okinawa, Japan, three months before the war ended. He was well-known among Americans, who followed his stories about the war in both the European and Pacific theaters.
The commanding general at Iejima, known at the time as Ie Shima (both are alternative Japanese pronunciations of the same kanji), reported Pyle's death to his superiors as follows: "I regret to report that War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, who made such a great contribution to the morale of our foot soldier, was killed in the battle of Ie Shima today."
His remains were removed from Okinawa to be re-interred at the new Punchbowl Cemetery, more formally known as the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in 1949. In the immediate years that followed, Punchbowl was often noted as the cemetery where Ernie Pyle was laid to rest.
This writer remembers meeting a man in Florida in 1988 or so who reminisced about Ernie Pyle, whom he knew through their mutual membership in a New York City go club. Go is a Japanese game similar to chess, but reputed to be more complicated. The man said Ernie was a good player. Back then there were few to no Japanese members of the club, and it was an obscure hobby in the U.S.
Read the New York Times April 19, 1945 obituary.
Link:
Ernie Pyle's Wartime Columns [Indiana University (Ernie's alma mater)]
This is a reposting of a 2013 Hawaii Political Info story
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