WWII Photo of ERNIE PYLE & SAILORS - ORIGINAL 1945 U. S. NAVY

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Original WWII Photograph of ERNIE PYLE and a Group of Sailors. 8" x 10 glossy with caption on reverse and excellent condition. Official U. S. Navy Photograph. " ERNIE GUEST OF SAILORS - PHOTO SHOWS A GROUP OF SAILORS ENTERTAINING ERNIE PYLE, FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT WHO WAS KILLED AT IE JIMA, A LITTLE ISLAND OFF OKINAWA TUESDAY NIGHT. 'NO MAN IN THIS WAR' President Truman said in paying tribute to the famous writer 'HAS SO WELL TOLD THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MAAN AS AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN WANTED IT TOLD. HE DESERVES THE GRATITUDE OF ALL HIS COUNTRYMEN' ". 4-19-1945. USPS First class delivery in the Continental US is $ 5.00. Will ship Worldwide and will combine shipping when practical.Ernest 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 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 (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa .At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." [1]Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Personal life 3 Career 3.1 Staff reporter and aviation columnist 3.2 Human-interest and columnist 3.3 World War II correspondent 3.3.1 European theater 3.3.2 Pacific theater 4 Death 5 Writing style 6 Popularity 7 Legacy 8 Honors and awards 9 Tributes 10 Pyle historic sites 10.1 Other sites named in Pyle's honor 11 In popular culture 12 Selected published works 12.1 Notable column 12.2 Books 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 16 Further reading 17 External links Early life and education [ edit ] Ernie Pyle birthplace in Dana, IndianaErnest "Ernie" Taylor Pyle was born on August 3, 1900, on the Sam Elder farm near Dana, Indiana , in rural Vermillion County, Indiana . His parents were Maria (Taylor) and William Clyde Pyle. [2] [3] At the time of Pyle's birth his father was a tenant farmer on the Elder property. [4] Neither of Pyle's parents attended school beyond the eighth grade. [3]Pyle, an only child, disliked farming and pursued a more adventurous life. [5] After graduating from a local high school in Bono , Helt Township, Vermillion County, Indiana, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I . Pyle began his training at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana , but the war ended before he could be transferred to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station for additional training. [6] [7] [8]Pyle enrolled at Indiana University in 1919, [9] aspiring to become a journalist. However, IU did not offer a degree in journalism at that time, so Pyle majored in economics and took as many journalism courses as he could. Pyle began studying journalism in his sophomore year, the same year he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and began working on the Indiana Daily Student , the student-written newspaper. During his junior year Pyle became the newspaper's city editor and its news editor; he also worked on the Arbutus , the campus yearbook, although he did not enjoy the desk-bound work. Pyle's simple, storytelling writing style, which he developed while a student at IU, later became his trademark style as a professional... read more

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