Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention of death in the Monitor's pages, I find no editorial taboo, as witness the moving tribute to one of your profession, Ernie Pyle, in the editorial columns of a recent issue...
Scripps-Howard's veteran Lee Miller liked to call himself "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle." For more than 20 years he was Ernie's closest friend; they were fellow Indianans, fellow Washington reporters; and, as managing editor of Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Miller was Ernie's boss for 10 years. Last week, he took over the assignment on which his friend had died. His first columns, of the landing on Borneo, began humbly: "I'm not going to try to write like Ernie. All I can do is write like Miller...
Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
...American fighting men wanted it told." Said General Eisenhower: "All of us here have lost one of our best and most understanding friends." The G.I.s he wrote about paid their respects too. On Ie Jima, Corporal Landon Seidler fashioned a handmade wooden casket for him. Soldiers nailed Pyle's dogtags on the top, and buried him on le beside the G.I. dead. For the spot where he had fallen, Corporal Seidler carved a wooden plaque: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy-Ernie Pyle-18 April...
Died. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 44, most beloved of U.S. war correspondents; by Jap machine-gun fire; on newly invaded le Jima (see PRESS...