Popular journalist killed by Japanese machine-gun fire

Sunday, April 18 The 108th day of the year 257 days left Today in history During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America’s most popular war correspondent, is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of Ie Shima in the Pacific. Pyle, born in Dana, Indiana, first began writing a column for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in ...

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