He That Shall Live This Day

Reporting America at War explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century and beyond. From San Juan Hill to the beaches of Normandy, from the jungles of Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, the three-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Ives tells the dramatic and often surprising stories of the reporters who witnessed and wrote the news from the battlefield. Through the lens of their experiences, the film examines the challenges of frontline reporting and illuminates the role of the correspondent in shaping the way wars have been remembered and understood.
Of special interest is their report on Ernie Pyle's The Death of Captain Waskow.
An excerpt

AT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved and respected by the soldiers under them. But never have I crossed the trail of any man as beloved as Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Belton, Texas.
Capt. Waskow was a company commander in the Thirty-Sixth Division. He had led his company since long before it left the States. He was very young, only in his middle twenties, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided by him

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More From Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle's Brave Men is a collection of his newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops.
An excerpt:

{the eve of D-Day} They joked in the sleepy predawn darkness. One said to the other, "What are you dressed up for, a masquerade?"
Everybody was overloaded with gear. One officer said, "The Germans will have to come to us. We can never get to them with all this load."
The most-repeated question was, "Is this trip necessary?"
Those men had spent months helping to plan a gigantic invasion. They were relieved to finish the weary routine of paper work at last, and glad to start putting their plans into action. If they had any personal concern about themselves they didn't show it.

If they had any personal concern about themselves they didn't show it.
Now that's what soldierin' is all about.

Ernie Pyle's grave at the "Punchbowl Cemetery"
(National Military Cemetery of the Pacific)