The reverse of a wartime snapshot bears a handwritten note: 'This is where Pyle is buried.' War correspondent Ernie Pyle, beloved chronicler of the American G.I., was killed by enemy machine-gun fire on Ie Shima on April 18, 1945. This brief inscription, penned by a veteran of the 345th Bombardment Group, identifies the accompanying photograph as a record of his original burial site on the island — a poignant personal memorial preserved within a serviceman's wartime photo album. Project: 218239