Posted on Jun 8, 2024
‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
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‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
Posted from militarytimes.comPosted in these groups: Combat Correspondent
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Mr. Pyle was combat correspondent's correspondent! He pulled no punches with his reporting, well with what they'd let him report, and he was the anti-Chris Wallace in his love of the American Fighting man! The sights and smells of Omaha were overwhelming to everyone and the results of the attack needed telling. I think the American psyche was okay with the casualties inthe European theater, much more so than the Paciic theater.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
All true. It was a said day when that Japanese machine gunner killed him on Ie Shima off Okinawa while he was covering the much-overlooked 77th Inf. Div. . . .
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What a great man. Only to go to yet another war zone and get snipered …. RIP
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