Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. The Body of Ernie Pyle Laid To Rest, 7/19/1949.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. The Body of Ernie Pyle Laid To Rest, 7/19/1949.

1949

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Original Caption: The body of Ernie Pyle, late beloved war correspondent who lost his life while serving with first line troops on Le Shima was laid to final rest, Tuesday morning, July 19th in the new Punchbowl Memorial Cemetary of the Pacific, Oahu, T.H. Pall Bearers are pictured removing Ernie Pyle's flag draped casket before the burial ceramonies. Signal Corps Photo. Photo by: SFC Chang, 8309th Service Unit

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Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945

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Ernest "Ernie" 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 W...