Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Ernie Pyle Preparing to Cover the Pacific War, ca. ca. 1944 1945.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Ernie Pyle Preparing to Cover the Pacific War, ca. ca. 1944 1945.

1944-1945

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Original Caption: Ernie Pyle, preparing to cover the Pacific War front, gets a preview from enlisted men who have returned from the front. Left to Right: T/4 Al Levy, of 153 Western Ave, Albany, NY, Signal Corps movie photographer had covered Navy attacks on the Bonins, Phillipine raids, Palau Group, Okinawa, Formosa, and the 2nd Battle of the Phillipine Sea; Ernie Pyle is signing short snorter bills; T/5 William Gharrity of 922 Superior, Chippewa Falls, WI, just returned from Leyte and who also covered the Battle of Saipan and the Palau-Ulithi operations; and ISSG.T Richard W. Bridenbaugh of 4604 Commonwealth Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, Army correspondent who just returned from his first operation at Leyte, having worked with the 7th Division.

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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...