Pyle, Ernie (1900-1945), an American newspaperman, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his reporting. His syndicated columns during World War II told millions of Americans how their boys lived and fought as soldiers. Writing with humor and sensitivity, Pyle became one of the best-loved reporters in the United States. He traveled with U.S. troops on nearly every front in Africa and Europe before he went to the Pacific war theater. A Japanese machine-gunner killed him on Ii Shima island during the battle for Okinawa on April 18, 1945.
Ernest Taylor Pyle was born on Aug. 3, 1900, near Dana, Indiana, and studied at Indiana University. He worked on newspapers in Indiana, Washington, D.C., and New York City before he became a columnist in 1935. Columns he wrote during the war were published as Ernie Pyle in England (1941), Here Is Your War (1943), and Brave Men (1944).
See also Foreign correspondent .
