page_title: Ernie Pyle
section_title: Pyle historic sites
hierarchical_section_title: Ernie Pyle / Pyle historic sites
caption_attribution_description: English: Ernie Pyle House and Library located at 900 Girard Boulevard SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was the home of war correspondent Ernie Pyle and is now a branch library of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System.
context_page_description: Ernest Taylor Pyle was a Pulitzer Prize—winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater and Pacific theater. Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima during the Battle of Okinawa.
  At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen."
context_section_description: In 1947, the Albuquerque City Council accepted Pyle's last home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a memorial to the late war correspondent. Since 1948 the former residence, known as the Ernie Pyle Library, has served as the first branch of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System. The library branch "houses a small collection of adult and children's books, as well as Pyle memorabilia and archives." The Ernie Pyle House/Library was designated as a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006.
  The Ernie Pyle World War II Museum (Pyle's restored birthplace) includes a farmhouse that was moved from its original location to Dana, Indiana. The museum, which is open to the public, became a state historic site in July 1976; however, it is no longer part of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites system. Its present-day owners and operators are the Friends of Ernie Pyle. The museum's  visitor center, constructed from two World War II-era Quonset huts features displays, mostly of Pyle's wartime career.
caption: The Ernie Pyle Library in Albuquerque
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