Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle
Ernest Taylor Pylewas a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 August 1900
CountryUnited States of America
military war writing
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
war fighting lines
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
war thinking might
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
war men giants
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
war soldier literature
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
war soldier lines
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
war black mind
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
country war ugly
Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
war rain boys
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
military war believe
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.
american-journalist outlook
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
american-journalist bodies dead feet fifty inhuman line looking men speaks
The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
american-journalist fleas
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
night fire london
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.