Ernie Pyle Collection 1928-2009 1935-2004

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Ernie Pyle Collection 1928-2009 1935-2004

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This collection contains materials written by and about Ernie Pyle, an American journalist who was mostfamous for his World War II columns from the 1940s. The collection also covers his early days as the “RovingReporter,” his life in Albuquerque and overseas, and his eventual death in Ie Shima, Japan in 1948. There is alsomuch information on various tributes and memorials which occurred after his death, including the opening of theErnie Pyle Memorial Library in Albuquerque, NM.

30 cubic feet

eng,

Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Special Collections Library

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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...