 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

Suffering head wounds a marine and a navy corpsman head to the rear to receive further medical treatment.(rudeerude)

Walkin Wounded

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)