Ernie Pyle Memorial

181, Lejima
Okinawa, Japan

This memorial is dedicated to the American war reporter Ernest Taylor Pyle who was killed by enemy machine gun fire during the Battle of Okinawa (1.4.1945 - 23.6.1945). The text on the memorials reads: [i]"AT THIS SPOT THE 77TH INFANTRY DIVISION LOST A BUDDY ERNIE PYLE 18 APRIL, 1945"[/i]

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Text by: Kaj Metz

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