General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. 1947 - 1980. ERNIE PYLE ON OKINAWA & VILLAGE OF SOBE, 4/3/1945.

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General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. 1947 - 1980. ERNIE PYLE ON OKINAWA & VILLAGE OF SOBE, 4/3/1945.

1945

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1) MS Communications men carrying telephone wire down Japanese road.2) MS American soldier walks into yard of Japanese dwelling, carbine at the ready position.3) MS-Pan Japanese buildings.4) MS Souvenir hunter rummages through discarded material near Japanese home.5) CU Ernie pyle eats K-rations with soldier.6) MS Ernie Pyle poses for camera.7) HS LCVP on beach as ramp is lowered & troops come ashore.8) GV Landing craft & other ships on Okinawa beach, taken from the beach-SV.9) HS LCVPs & LCP(R)s on the beach.10) MS Motion picture cameraman hand sights 35mm camera.11) CU Motion picture cameraman takes pictures over parapet, ducks, as explosion is seen, BG.12) MS-Pan Japanese civilians close to Japanese dwelling.13) GV Courtyard of Japanese dwelling showing Japanese women & children & oldpeople.14) LS Okinawa beach (shaky).15) MS American soldier plays with baby goat.16) MS Japanese tomb near beach.17) GV Troops march across open country.QUALITY: GENERALLY GOOD.

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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...