Papers, 1942-1970.

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Papers, 1942-1970.

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The collection consists of air mail correspondence and telegrams of Pyle's assignment in Okinawa and from an aircraft cruiser in the Pacific Ocean. There are several issues of the Far East Legionnaire, which photographically illustrate annual pilgrimages to the Ernie Pyle Memorial in Okinawa from 1965 through 1967. Also included is the program for the Community Memorial Service in Memory of Ernie Pyle held at the University of New Mexico on May 13, 1945. A variety of copies of newspaper clippings relating to the news of Ernie Pyle's death and tributes to his memory have been added over the years.

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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...