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Ernie Pyle, War Correspondent, Died on This Day in 1945

Michelle Dean · 04/18/14 03:40PM

Journalism has a short shelf life, which is why people who are not journalists mostly don't remember the name "Ernie Pyle" anymore. He died on this day in 1945, doing what he had done more or less throughout World War II, which was to say hang around with a bunch of troops on the front lines of a difficult war so he could record their sufferings in incredibly popular, lyrical columns he published for the Scripps-Howard news service.