I knew that Harold was in Ie Shima, but I didn’t know until years later that he was only one fox hole over from Ernie Pyle when he was killed. It was said that the jeep he was in came under sniper fire and that they all jumped into fox holes to get away. Ernie Pyle raised his head to ask if the man in the fox hole across from him was okay. The sniper took his life with the next shot he fired.
There is a monument that was erected by the unit he was covering at the time of his death. It says, “On this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a Buddy. Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945”.
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