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journalist
Ernest  Taylor  'Ernie'  Pyle
[1900-45]

short profile primary works works about Ernie Pyle movies, other media image gallery family & friends links

Ernest Taylor 'Ernie' Pyle [1900-45] was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist who died in combat.

"Any aviator who didn't know Pyle was a nobody." — aviator Amelia Earhart [1897-1937]

Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation [est. 2013]
Ernie Pyle entry at Wikipedia
browse Ernie Pyle Store at Amazon
incomplete Ernie Pyle credits at Internet Movie Database

Primary Works
browse Ernie Pyle Store at Amazon

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"Home Country" [1935] by Ernie Pyle
http://www.amazon.com/Home-country-Ernie-Pyle/dp/B00005XGRB/ = 70+
http://www.amazon.com/Home-Country-Ernie-Pyle-1987-06-09/dp/B01JXPCT2Y/

"Ernie Pyle In England, 1940-41" [1941]
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-England-ebook/dp/B01M103QCP/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-England/dp/1540373835/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-England/dp/1258436299/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-England/dp/B000NSI3QW/ hc

"Here Is Your War: North Africa, 1942-43" [bestseller 1943] by Ernie Pyle, 2004 Introduction by Orr Kelly
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Your-War-Story-G-I-ebook/dp/B003VYBP9C/
http://www.amazon.com/Here-your-war-Ernie-Pyle/dp/B0007DMAH6/ = 50+

"Brave Men: Europe, 1943-44" [bestseller 1944] by Ernie Pyle, 2001 Introduction by G. Kurt Piehler
http://www.amazon.com/Brave-Men-Ernie-Pyle-ebook/dp/B00JL1ALT4/
http://www.amazon.com/Brave-Men-Ernie-Pyle/dp/B001NW88Z8/ = 90+

"Last Chapter: The Pacific, 1945" [1946] by Ernie Pyle
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chapter-Ernie-Pyle-ebook/dp/B06XG4C2D3/

"Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatches" [1989] Edited by David Nichols
http://www.amazon.com/Ernies-America-David-Nichols/dp/0679731776/ pb
http://www.amazon.com/Ernies-America-Ernie-Travel-Dispatches/dp/0394575725/ = 90+

"At Home With Ernie Pyle" [Indiana University Press, 2016] Edited by Owen V. Johnson
http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Ernie-Pyle-ebook/dp/B017QYZUZM/
http://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Ernie-Pyle/dp/0253019052/

Movies, Other Media
incomplete Ernie Pyle credits at Internet Movie Database

"The Story of G.I. Joe" movie [] /tt0038120/
Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle + Robert Mitchum as Capt Walker 'owns the movie'; based on Pyle's two bestseller books
https://www.amazon.com/Story-G-I-Joe-Burgess-Meredith/dp/6305837406/

"Ernie Pyle: Typewriter In A Foxhole" [1958]
http://www.archive.org/download/BiographiesInSound/1958-01-16NbcBiographiesInSound86ErniePyleTypewriterInAFoxhole.mp3

"From D-Day To Germany (1944-45)" [Jack Lieb lecture 1969]

mostly unofficial color 16mm films by Hearst Newsreel photographer Jack H. Lieb showing England, the D-Day invasion, the liberation of Paris, and on to Berlin; includes glimpses of war correspondents Ernie Pyle, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Capa & Cecil Carnes, and of director George Stevens & actor Edward G. Robinson; theatrical screening in France in December 1992 full credits at IMDb • watch full movie/lecture [6/2014 upload; 46:38] online at YouTube

"G.I. Joe: The Ernie Pyle Story" TV documentary [1998] tt0819767/
written & directed by Marino Amoruso

"Unsung Heroes: Ernie Pyle - The Voice of G.I. Joe"
[History Channel Dec 2001]

minimal info found, none on IMDb or Wikipedia Produced by Lou Reda; hosted by Roger Mudd • not listed at IMDb 50-minute A&E TV Networks DVD [7/2008] for $13.50 A&E Home Video DVD [5/2002] for $24.98 History Channel VHS [5/2002] for $5.00

"The Last Days of World War II" TV series / Episode #9 [indep May 2005] /tt1545455/

"Ernie Pyle's War: A Documentary on Ernie Pyle, World War II Correspondent" [2005]
https://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyles-War-Documentary-Correspondent/dp/B000E42SOS/

"G.I. Joe: The Ernie Pyle Story-SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTOR'S CUT" [2013]
https://www.amazon.com/G-I-Joe-Ernie-Story-SPECIAL-DIRECTORS/dp/B004B3QBE6/

Works About Ernie Pyle

obituaries from New York Times, and newspapers in Indiana, New Mexico & Washington, DC

"An Ernie Pyle Album – Indiana To Ie Shima" [Wm. Sloane Associates, 1946] by Lee G. Miller

"Ernie Pyle, Typewriter Soldier" [June 1982] by Rudy Faircloth & W. Horace Carter
https://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-Typewriter-Soldier-Faircloth/dp/0937866040/

"Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest" [1996] by Richard Melzer
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-American-Southwest-Richard-Melzer-ebook/dp/B005E0CF6S/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-American-Southwest-Richard-Melzer/dp/0865342431/

"Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness To World War II" [1997] by James Tobin
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyles-War-Americas-Eyewitness-ebook/dp/B000FC0O1S/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyles-War-Americas-Eyewitness/dp/0743284763/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyles-Americas-Eyewitness-World/dp/0684836424/

"Ernie Pyle: A Hoosier Childhood" [ages 12 & up; April 2002 novel] by Bob Bales
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-Childhood-Bob-Bales/dp/094435310X/

"Ernie Pyle Was My Hero" [March 2012] by Renita Menyhert
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-Was-My-Hero-ebook/dp/B007R0NRDI/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-Was-My-Hero/dp/1469143836/
http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Pyle-Was-My-Hero/dp/1469143844/

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"" episode of "Biography In Sound" [NBC Radio broadcast April 1956]
listen free to hour-long radio program hosted by Bennett Cerf [MP3 file] at Internet Archive

"Writings of Ernie Pyle" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History
https://www.c-span.org/video/?170132-1/writings-ernie-pyle radio [2:02:16]

Image  Gallery

Family & Friends
Ernie Pyle was born near Dana, Indiana in August 1900; he served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; his newspaper career included work in Indiana, in Washington, DC,
and in New York City; he wrote a national column for Scripps-Howard from 1935-1942. He became a war correspondent in 1942 and reported from North Africa, Italy,
England, and France, then from aboard U.S. Navy vessels in the South Pacific. He was killed by a Japanese sniper on Ie Shima Island in April 1945.

father William Clyde Pyle []
mother Maria Taylor Pyle []

wife Geraldine Elizabeth 'Jerry' Siebolds Pyle [1899-1945] - married in 1925, widowed 4/1945, died 11/1945

L i n k s
Ernie Pyle Birthplace & World War II Museum State Historic Site [est. 1976] in Dana, Indiana
Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation []
Ernie Pyle entry at Wikipedia
browse Ernie Pyle Store at Amazon
incomplete Ernie Pyle credits at Internet Movie Database

Ernie Pyle House/Library [open 1948], 900 Girard Blvd. SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico
built 1940, residence of Ernie & Jerry Pyle until 1945, acquired by City of Albuquerque in 1947, designated a National Historic Landmark in October 2006

University of Indiana - where Ernie Pyle attended but left just short of graduation
Indiana University's School of Journalism was housed in 'Ernie Pyle Hall' until the 2014 merger, repurposed 2016
Indiana University's Media School [merger 7/2014]
Ernie Pyle Digital Archive at Indiana University
a bronze statue of Ernie Pyle was erected in 2014 in front of the Media School's Franklin Hall  

Takarazuka Theater in Hibiya Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
built in 1934; taken over by Allied Occupation Forces in 1945 & re-named 'The Ernie Pyle Theater' until 1955; demolished in 1998

Ernie Pyle United States Army Reserve Center [built 1983] at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens, New York

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