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Ernie Pyle
Monument

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Ernie Pyle Veteran

Birth
Indiana, USA
Death
18 Apr 1945 (aged 44)
Okinawa, Japan
Monument
Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.1228, Longitude: -118.2361222
Memorial ID
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Journalist died in WWII while working for the Scripps-Howard news service. Memorialized on a plaque adjacent to the Gardens of Honor in the Court of Freedom burial complex at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Journalist died in WWII while working for the Scripps-Howard news service. Memorialized on a plaque adjacent to the Gardens of Honor in the Court of Freedom burial complex at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.

Inscription

MEMORIAL TO MEMBERS OF THE PRESS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II
"This memorial honors the integrity and selflessness of all who serve mankind by accurate and dispassionate appraisal of world events in peace and war. It is dedicated to the perpetual memory of those whose courageous adherence to an ideal in the battle zones of World War II made a final deadline at the cost of their own lives."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander



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