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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...
Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
...wife on March 31: "I've promised myself and I promise you that if I come through this one I will never go on another one." But there was a sideline invasion coming up, on the ten-mile square isle of le Jima, three miles off Okinawa, and Pyle went along...
...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...