How old was ernie pyle when he died
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Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle, born near Dana in 1900, was a newspaper columnist during World War II. He attended Indiana University but left before graduating to take a job at the LaPorte Herald, a northern Indiana newspaper. Around this time, Ernie met his wife, Geraldine, and they were married in 1925.
Ernie eventually got a job with the Scripps-Howard newspapers as a columnist. He and his wife traveled the country during the Great Depression and wrote columns describing life in America at that time. When war broke out in Europe, Pyle went to England to cover the Battle of Britain in 1940.
When America entered the war in 1941, Pyle signed on as a war correspondent. He wrote columns about what it was like to be an ordinary soldier and the everyday struggles they encountered. He traveled with American soldiers on the front lines in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. Ernie’s columns became so popular that they were published in over 400 daily newspapers nationwide during the war. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his columns in 1944.
In 1945, Ernie was assigned to cove
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Ernie Pyle Collection
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Collection
Identifier: MSS-0001
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a large amount of newspaper clippings, and also contains various original documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and realia. The newspaper clippings have been arranged in general subject areas by various library staff over more than fifty years. The collection has been divided into eight subject areas in addition to photographs, scrapbooks, and realia.
Subject descriptions:
I. Pyles, Early Years. This material contains information concerning Ernie Pyle’s years as a roving reporter, beginning in 1935, for the Scripps-Howard Alliance. It includes a donation from the Willard E. Holt family with a well known photo taken in Lordsburg, NM, Pyle’s black notebook with notes and story ideas, columns in 1937-38 from Kalaupapa, Hawaii, about the Kalaupapa Leprosy Colony, miscellaneous early travel documents, correspondence, 1936-1937 consisting of fan letters, and articles, describing Ernie Pyle’s days as a roving reporter.
II. Pyles, In Albuqu
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Ernie Pyle
American war correspondent and writer
Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) 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 (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. Pre
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