European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Peg 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 17, 1965 Ernie Pyle was Dis As Radii Loread is j from caviar. R Ivis. Hiim Leonii us n Mati Nee idol mixed in High society and was one of the Best dressed men of his Duy. Lie Hobnob bed with generals look a Canvas Bathtub with him when he went into the Field and wrote of . He almost seemed to love War. Ernie an sex far boy fro Indiana stayed with the troop ate what they ate wore what they wore slept in Foxholes As they did. And from the Depths of his soul he despised and hated War. He described ii As a perpetual weight that is compounded of fear and death and dirt and noise and to him the Only glorious thing about War was the Wist Ful Eamer Aderle with which i Kail lonely men together in seamless Nelly la the perform Ance of a common and danger Ous Mission. Ii was my Fortune to go through four campaigns with Pyle along with Don what Chad whom Ernie himself warmly admired As the greatest of the combat news correspondents. Ernie s memory hat endured Well. Over the years hundreds of people have Osl cd me what was Ernie Pyle really like they have forgotten some of the famous generals they still re member Ernie. He was a Man Well Worth remembering. He was of medium height slender and weighed about 113 pounds. Over his Bald ing grizzled hair he usually wore Only a fatigue hat. Because his helmet Felt Loo heavy. Lie had Bright Blue eyes in Alen Liery crinkly face and looked like a Wise Elf eyes that saw both the grief and fun of being alive. He usually had a cold i int he suffered from secondary anaemia something Only a few Battlefront doctors knew. No Man 1 Ever met could win Affe Clinn and respect quicker. He had an instinctive Welt of human sympathy for people in trouble. Soldiers who Are people always in Rou ble instinctively sensed that kindness in him. They liked him Loo because he was evermore scared than they were by danger and Dlce l mind admitting ii out loud. Twice he broke Down under the Strain and had to come Home for n rest. In Early ims head done his duty and had earned enough Money to satisfy his modest needs for life. But he look his final assignment be cause he Felt he ought to. Ernie went to the Pacific a tallest locally convinced he would t come Back because he his memory still Green it has Heel u years since japanese sniper s Bullet killed Ernie Pyle loathe outstanding correspondent of world War ii of a Pacific Island. He s buried in Honolulu but sign below was erected where he Felt. A it col James w. Campbell a Talicol William w. Coleman jr., usar Arnold hunk Trelmer a Frank it nov s. Epstein it poly Edler in pm managing Hatef production a circulation Mai directory of news bureaus Felt his Luck had about run out after a score or More Battle Fields. It had. Sometimes he wrote to Friend i gel so sad and despairing and homesick i can hardly keep from but that did t keep him fro doing his Job telling the Home folks what their men atthe front were doing. If he were alive now he d be64. He lies now shoulder to shoulder with other fallen Menin a military cemetery at Hono Lulu and there s no truer Soldier there than Ernest Taylor Pyle. Like the others he beat Dow the human terror in him to be come a hero. 0 Hector of circulation offices Italy Lathorn Madrid. K 1111. My 3. Ici a Lilllan number a air Bah ill Imam . So -.". R. Usa eur. Apo.?,." Hosu is " Ili ail it a in atonal main Tho Elava and Iii. .""i.1 Apo for a win. Int of Darma at 1c Toov 7m� � Riker i of St of a. Oor Marv. Trtol in Lon st., no. Yort ism Tolk us Isle no we �., up to ,1ttv-.rft. Of i a r i jts
