Complex sentence: Pyle would later claim to be a U.S. Navy veteran who had been wounded at Guadalcanal, but in 1991 the National Personnel Records Center reported there was no evidence he had ever served in the Navy.
Split into simpler sentences: Pyle would later claim to be a U.S. Navy veteran who had been wounded at Guadalcanal. In 1991 the National Personnel Records Center reported there was no evidence he had served in the Navy.