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Ernie Pyle

(1900–1945) Journalist United States

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Ernie Pyle was a journalist from the United States, best known for Here is your war.

Quick Facts About Ernie Pyle

Born
August 3, 1900
Died
April 18, 1945
Nationality
United States
Profession
Journalist
Notable works
Here is your war

About Ernie Pyle

Ernest Taylor Pyle was an 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 War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Purple Heart Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence Raymond Clapper Memorial Award

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