ERNIE PYLE DEAD
U.S. War Reporter Who Wrote Up The Ordinary Soldier PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S TRIBUTE Rec. 11. WASHINGTON, April. IS. Mr. Ernest .Taylor Pyle, the war correspondent known to millions of Americans as Ernie Pyle, has been killed, in action. He was killed by a Japanese machine-gun on a little island off Okinawa. His death became known when President Truman issued a message of condolence.
"The nation is quickly saddened again by the death of Ernie Pyle," said President Truman. ."No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man. He 'became the spokesman of .the ordinary American in .arms, doing so many extraordinary things. It was his genius that the mass and power of our military and naval forces never obscured the men who made All Americans understand now hew ./isely and how warrn- . artcuiy h'j his country."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 92, 19 April 1945, Page 5
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