The temporary grave of Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent killed by Japanese gunfire on Ie Shima, near Okinawa, on April 18, 1945. Beloved by the troops he covered, Pyle was buried among the servicemen he chronicled, his simple cross marker standing in a field of identical graves from the Okinawa campaign, the final and costliest battle of the Pacific War. Project: 218478