Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection, 1964 - 1980. Ernie Pyle Memorial, Okinawa, 4/18/1952.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection, 1964 - 1980. Ernie Pyle Memorial, Okinawa, 4/18/1952.

1952

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View of jagged mountain peak, native thatched huts in fg. on Ie Shima. Natives crowd memorial area. Marker inscibed "At This Spot The 77th Infantry Division Lost A Buddy Ernie Pyle 18 April 1945". Procession carrying US flags move to memorial site. VS, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler, CG, Ryukyus Command addresses the gathering. Wreaths are placed at the memorial stone; rifle volley fired; taps played. Note: Camera lens cuts into frame; some fog, flare. Poor material.. Ftge on people boarding LST mentioned in captions, missing.

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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...