This photo provided by Richard Strasser shows the scene on April 20, 1945, two days after his death on Ie Shima, where correspondent Ernie Pyle was buried alongside several soldiers killed in combat on the tiny island off Okinawa _ the kind of men Pyle had written about during four years of WWII battlefield reporting. The photo shows a memorial ceremony led by Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce (back to camera), commander of the Army's 77th Infantry Division, which captured the island the next day. Ernie Pyle's wooden coffin, with his picture and a sprig of foliage, is visible at the officer's feet. His body was moved in 1949 to a military cemetery in Hawaii.

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