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Ernie Pyle
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August 3, 1900 –
April 18, 1945)
perhaps America's
most famous war
correspondent
Famous Journalist
Died in combat
during WWII
Ernie Pyle
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Won Pulitzer Prize in
1944
His articles, about the
out-of-the-way places
he visited and the
people who lived
there, were a folksy
style much like a
personal letter to a
friend.
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Pyle shared his
emotions and his
insecurities in firstperson accounts from
England, North Africa,
Sicily, Italy, France and
the Pacific.
He had his own
problems -- a rocky
marriage being one.
But he managed to give
the public a vivid picture
of life on the front lines.
His down-to-earth, yet
eloquent writing
connected with readers,
and hundreds of
newspapers ran his
column.
One of the few civilians
to be buried in a war
cemetery
Awarded purple heart
Battle of Normandy
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The Battle of Normandy was fought
during World War II in the summer of
1944,
between the Allied nations and
German forces occupying Western
Europe.
More than 60 years later, the
Normandy Invasion, or D-Day, remains
the largest seaborne invasion in
history, involving nearly three million
troops crossing the English Channel
from England to Normandy in occupied
France.
The occupation of Normandy was
crucial for the Western Allies to bring
the war to the western border of
Germany.
If the Normandy invasion had not
occurred, there could conceivably have
been a complete possession of
northern and western Europe by Soviet
forces.