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06-06-19, 10:51 AM | #1 | |
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D-day views by Ernie Pyle, a 43-year-old journalist from rural Indiana,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...AiG?li=BBnb7Kz
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06-06-19, 11:04 AM | #2 |
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Excellent find! I remember reading about Ernie Pyle as a kid, but only that he was a war correspondent, a photographer, and that he was killed in action. This story brings out the man himself, especially his obsession with the dead and his feelings toward the people he photographed.
Thanks for posting this.
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06-06-19, 04:11 PM | #3 |
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06-07-19, 12:03 AM | #4 |
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Steve, Ernie wrote 4 books during the war, Ernie Pyle In England (1941), Here Is Your War (1943), Brave Men(1944), and Last Chapter(1949). He was known for going out with the front line troops and getting the average joe's thoughts.
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06-07-19, 04:57 AM | #5 |
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WOW! just WOW!
That brings back a few memories of some of the stories my late father told me when I was a kid. He was at Juno (Courseulles-sur-Mer) with the Canadians and believe me, some of his experiences were quite shocking. Thanks for sharing.
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06-07-19, 06:01 AM | #6 |
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Awesome article Quatro. I will be rereading this a few more times. Thanks everyone else for listing the other books by HW3 and everyone else.
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06-07-19, 12:23 PM | #7 | |
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I liked this part from the article ...
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06-07-19, 03:53 PM | #8 |
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I have one of his books. "Brave Men". It's a very good read.
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06-07-19, 04:58 PM | #9 |
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The whole logistics of the D-day operation is amazing. I still can't get my head around all that had to take place to support the landing and the operations after the landing. It was a massive operation
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06-07-19, 09:52 PM | #10 |
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Yep, even more amazing is that they did it while also conducting similarly sized operations half a world away against the Japanese, not to mention continuing a grinding advance up the Italian peninsula.
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