ERNIE PYLE

Ernie Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II (WWII). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He is also notable for the columns he wrote from 1935 through 1941 that earned him wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people across North America. Note that the movie "The Story of G.I. Joe" was based on Pyle's life after he was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 44.