US 1971 Journalist Ernest Taylor Pyle 16c. Scott. 1398a
Series: 1970-1974 Regular Issue - Precancels
Stamp details: Ernest Taylor Pyle (1900-1945)
Issued date: 07-05-1971 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 16c.
Emission: Precancelled
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 1398a
Michel (Germany): 1028xV
Dimensions (height x width):
26mm x 22mm
Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Print Method: Rotary press
Stamp Colors: Brown
Perforation: Perf 11 x 10˝
Paper: Untagged
Themes: Famous People, Author, Journalist
Stamp details: Ernest Taylor Pyle (1900-1945)
Issued date: 07-05-1971 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 16c.
Emission: Precancelled
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 1398a
Michel (Germany): 1028xV
Dimensions (height x width):
26mm x 22mm
Printer: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Print Method: Rotary press
Stamp Colors: Brown
Perforation: Perf 11 x 10˝
Paper: Untagged
Themes: Famous People, Author, Journalist
Description:- Ernest Taylor Pyle (1900-1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America. When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945). Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of "dogface" infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle