Raynors HCA 2017-02
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PYLE, Ernest T. (1900-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide. On April 17, 1945, Pyle came ashore with the Army's 305th Infantry Regiment of the 77th "Liberty Patch" Division on Iejima. The following day, after local enemy opposition had apparently been neutralized, he was traveling by jeep with Lt. Col. Joseph B. Coolidge. They encountered enemy machine gun fire. A bullet had entered Pyle's left temple just under his helmet, killing him instantly. Document Signed, “Ernie Pyle” with about a dozen other soldiers on a 100 Franc Note. The owner has ID’s the piece “Property of Cleon E. Freeman, Col. AC D+1 = June 7, 1944.” (The day following the Normandy Invasion). Pyle went to England in the spring of 1944 and landed in Normandy one day after D-Day.
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