This picture of Ernie Pyle's body, taken soon after he was killed by a Japanese bullet, was never released to the public. The man who took the picture, Army photographer Alexander Roberts, told a friend of Pyle's that the War Department withheld it "out of deference" to Pyle's ailing widow, Jerry.(ruderude)

Death of Ernie Pyle

 shares his cigarettes with some 1st Division marines as they rest at an Okinawa roadside.Pyle more than any writer told the story of the common G.I.  A few days after this picture Pyle was killed.(rudeerude)

Ernie Pyle in Okinawa

Men preparing grave markers while another finishes an ornate sign to adorn a US Marine 2 Div. graveyard on Tarawa ,1944(rudeerude)