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The first annual Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation Scholarship of $1,000 was awarded in 2017 to a University of New Mexico journalism student. [91] August 3, 2018, the inaugural National Ernie Pyle Day, was the result of a Congressional resolution drafted by the U.S. senators from Indiana, Joe Donnelly and Todd Young. [92]
Pyle had been killed by a hidden Japanese machine gunner during the initial landing on the island. At the time of his unit's arrival the grave site was marked by an upturned rifle stuck in the mud with Pyle's helmet on it. It was later marked by a monument created by the 77th Infantry Division. [3] Ernie Pyle Memorial at Ie Shima, 2009
Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), World War I veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II war correspondent † William F. Quinn (1919–2006), territorial governor (1957–59) and first state governor of Hawaii (1959–62) Thomas Rienzi (1919–2010), Army Signal Corps lieutenant general and communications-electronics innovator
The City of Albuquerque acquired the house from the Pyle Estate in 1948 and converted it into its first branch library. Today, the Ernie Pyle Library houses a small collection of adult and children's books, as well as Pyle memorabilia and archives. Although the house is an active branch library, its appearance as a home was carefully preserved.
U.S. journalist Ernie Pyle was killed during the battle. There is a monument dedicated to his memory on the southern part of the island. Every year on the weekend closest to his April 18 death there is a memorial service. Iejima, which was developed in conjunction with US bases on Okinawa, became a naval advance base.
Captain Henry Thomas Waskow (September 24, 1918 – December 14, 1943) was a United States Army officer, with the rank of captain, memorialized in Ernie Pyle's dispatch "The Death of Captain Waskow," which in turn was faithfully portrayed in the movie The Story of G.I. Joe.
A descendant of Tristram Coffin who arrived in the American colonies from England in 1642, Charles Carleton Coffin was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on July 26, 1823.. Growing up in rural New Hampshire, he was home-schooled by his parents and briefly attended Pembroke Academy and Boscawen Academy
SS Ernie Pyle WSA troopship, used for displaced persons (DPs) refugees after World War II, sold private in 1965, scrapped in 1978. USNS Marine Carp (T-AP-199) - Completed as War Shipping Administration troop ship. Operated November 1945 — 1946 returning troops to U.S. from Europe, Asia and lastly Barbados.