It's hard for most people to understand today what meant to the public back in the days of World War II. He was the most well-known and celebrated journalist of his day.
As far as any research has been able to reveal, the picture below is the first time the public has ever seen a picture of Pyle right after he had been killed by a Japanese machine gun ambush on a Pacific island named Ie Shima, near to Okinawa. He had just recently arrived in the area.
The reason the little island was being attacked was because of an airfield the miliary wanted to capture.
Pyle reported from a number of places from a variety of battlefronts across Europe before he went to the Pacific.
AP Photo/Courtesy of Richard Strasser
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