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Ernie Pyle and War Reportage
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 52, Number 4, Fall 2005 (whole No. 221)
- pp. 74-78
- 10.1353/dss.2005.0098
- Article
- Additional Information
Sixty years ago, with victory over Japan in sight, Ernie Pyle, America's greatest World War II correspondent, was killed by a sniper while covering the war in the Pacific. For a nation still reeling from President Roosevelt's death, the loss of Pyle six days later came as a terrible shock.