Ernie Pyle was laid to rest July 19, 1945 at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl Crater, Oahu, Hawaii.
Pyle was killed by sniper fire on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945 — shortly before the end of WWII. He was buried on that island. After hostilities ceased, he was moved three months later to the National Memorial Cemetery in Oahu, Hawaii.
Photos of the ceremony are from slide scans from the Owen Johnson Collection at the Ernie Pyle WWII Museum. Johnson, a historian and retired journalism and history professor at Indiana University, was the author of “At home with Ernie Pyle.” The slides are from a collection of documents related to Pyle that his family donated to the museum after his death in 2022. They were scanned by museum archivist Andy Chandler.