It will be a few months yet, but when you see Bill Wolfe’s newest sculpture, that of Hoosier favorite son, Ernie Pyle, you will undoubtedly be taken by its military bend: a grinning but war-weary ...
IE SHIMA, Okinawa — Retired Air Force Maj. Tom Cowan didn’t hesitate when asked about his favorite column written by his famous relative, war correspondent Ernie Pyle. It’s perhaps Pyle’s most ...
On Memorial Day, Americans are remembering men and women in uniform who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving their country. Journalist Ernie Pyle did not wear battle fatigues, nor did he carry a weapon ...
On a warm summer Friday in June 2010, I joined a group of journalists gathered from all corners of the state, to converge and meet downstate at what was once the farmhouse homestead of Hoosier ...
COURTESY NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND A sign marks the site where war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed on Iejima island in 1945. 1 /2 COURTESY NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND A sign marks ...
Most war correspondents don’t become household names, but as the Second World War raged, every American knew Ernie Pyle. His great subject was not the politics of the war, or its strategy, but rather ...