SOURCE: "Ernie of the Warm Heart," in The Columnists, New York Publishers, 1944, pp. 296-317.

In the following essay, Fisher discusses Pyle's World War II journalism, noting that Pyle's concentration on the details of soldiers' lives and experiences made him an exceptional war correspondent.

Ernie Pyle is a columnist only in the sense that he has available each day a certain amount of newspaper space which he may fill with such matter as seems proper to him at the time. By the Big Think standards, he is no columnist at all.

After a couple of years on virulently active battle fronts, he has neglected to evolve seven better ways to win the war. Heads of nations look to him in vain for an approving word or a line of kindly criticism. He is more concerned with the current problems of the soldier in an adjoining fox hole than with...