Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 15, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 11 May 1945 — G.I. Joe’s Reporter Killed [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

G.I. Joe’s Reporter Killed

Ernie Pyle, famous war correspondent, acclaimed as the fighting men’s personal reporter, recently killed by a Jap machine-gun bullet on a little island off Okinawa, is shown in his last photo. This is typical of the way be covered both wars, by living and working with the men. He escaped death several times while covering the war with Germany.