Ernie Pyle Summer 1944: A War Correspondent in Normandy

The most famous American war correspondent takes part in allied landing in Normandy on June 7th, 1944. When he landed in Normandy on June 7, 1944, Ernie Pyle was the best (Pulitzer Prize) and most popular American war correspondent. Pyle owes this popularity to the fact that he tells simply and with a lot of empathy, the stories of the common soldiers. During the summer of 1944, he will follow the American troops from Omaha Beach until the liberation of Paris, attending the liberation of Cherbourg, the hedgerow war, the bombings of the Cobra Operation, but also discover Normandy surprisingly… Many episodes he tells in 70 articles subsequently published in the American daily press. These 70 articles had never been translated into French in their entirety. AUTHOR: Frederic Patard is a journalist and historian from La Manche (Normandy). He was hired at the Presse de la Manche (daily newspaper) in 1989 as a documentalist, then became a journalist for this daily. He has also published several books on the history of Cherbourg and North-Cotentin.