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Ernie Pyle Memorial

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:

"AT THIS SPOT
THE
77TH INFANTRY DIVISION
LOST A BUDDY
ERNIE PYLE
18 APRIL, 1945"

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