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Ernie Pyle August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) perhaps America's most famous war correspondent Famous Journalist Died in combat during WWII Ernie Pyle 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. 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 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.