As History.com notes, on this day in 1945 Ernie Pyle, America's most popular WWII war correspondent, was killed in combat by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of le Shima in the Pacific.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/journalist-ernie-pyle-killed?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2017-0418-04182017&om_rid=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa&om_mid=172458796&kx_EmailCampaignID=11136&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2017-0418-04182017&kx_EmailRecipientID=de5e4076c942a595dbda53f758321d197499484f6d117f61b6ac5c08e0d6f0aa
Note: I'm a huge admirer of Ernie Pyle. I have the collection of all of his columns in my library.
Someone once wrote that his columns read like short stories. I agree.
Actor Burgess Meredith portrayed Ernie Pyle in the movie The Story G.I. Joe, which also starred Robert Mitchum. Good film about a good man and the good men he covered during the war.
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