Editing Ernie Pyle (section)

==Tributes==
[[File:Ernie Pyle-B29.jpg|thumb|175px|right|The Ernie Pyle Boeing B-29]]
*The employees of [[Spirit AeroSystems|Boeing-Wichita]], through the 7th War Loan Drive, paid for and built a Boeing [[B-29 Superfortress]] named the "Ernie Pyle," which was dedicated on May 1, 1945.<ref>{{cite journal | title =Superfort "Ernie Pyle", Gift of Plane Plant Workers, Here En Route to Japan | journal =Wing Tips | pages =2 | publisher =1505th A.A.F | location =Mathers Field, Sacramento, California | url =http://www.chassis-plans.com/Wing-Tips-Article_Ernie_Pyle_B29.pdf | access-date =January 15, 2019 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110708140524/http://www.chassis-plans.com/Wing-Tips-Article_Ernie_Pyle_B29.pdf | archive-date =July 8, 2011 | url-status =dead}}</ref> Initially assigned to the Second Air Force at [[Kearney Air Force Base]], the B-29 named in Pyle's honor, Serial Number 44-70118, was sent to the Twentieth Air Force, Pacific Theater of Operations, on May 27, 1945. The plane was ferried to the Pacific theater by a crew under the command of Lieutenants Howard F. Lippincott and Robert H. Silver. The nose art was removed when the aircraft reached its intended operations base in the Pacific because the base commander thought it would become a prime target of the Japanese. The "Ernie Pyle" survived the war and was returned to the United States on October 22, 1945. It was stored at Pyote AAF, Texas, and disposed of as surplus on March 25, 1953.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
*Shortly after his death, on Friday, April 27, 1945, the United States Maritime Commission announced (PR 2247) that a troop ship would be named after him [[Type C4-class ship|SS Ernie Pyle]]. It was launched by Babette Johnson, his niece, in June 1945. It was used to transport refugees from Europe.
*During the [[American occupation of Japan]], between 1945 and 1955, the [[Tokyo Takarazuka Theater]] in downtown Tokyo was renamed the Ernie Pyle Theater, a site that was popular with many American G.I.s.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
*Scripps-Howard Newspapers established the Ernie Pyle Memorial Fund in 1953 to support the Ernie Pyle Award. Beginning in 1953, the award is given annually to reporters who "most nearly exemplify the style and craftsmanship for which Ernie Pyle was known".<ref name="PYLE-19531231">{{Cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/image/149951462/?terms=Jim%2BG.%2BLucas%2BScripps-Howard%2BAward |title=Ernie Pyle Award Goes To Writer Jim Lucas |date=December 31, 1953 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |access-date=March 17, 2019 |agency=Scripps-Howard Service |issue=190 |edition=Home |volume=70 |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The award is now known as the Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling Award (Honoring Ernie Pyle), and is part of the annual [[Scripps Howard Awards]].
*The Indiana University board of trustees voted in 1954 to officially name the building that housed the IU School of Journalism on the Bloomington campus as Ernie Pyle Hall. The previous year, Sigma Delta Chi had placed a marker honoring Pyle at the east end of the building.<ref>Albright, page 13.</ref> Ernie Pyle Hall is the present-day home of the Office of Admissions Welcome Center and the College of Arts and Sciences Center for Career Achievement.<ref>{{cite journal| author=Metta Thomas| title =Ernie Pyle Hall to be rededicated in ceremony | journal =Indiana Daily Student | location =Bloomington | date = October 16, 2018| url =https://www.idsnews.com/article/2018/10/ernie-pyle-hall-to-be-rededicated-in-ceremony| access-date =January 15, 2019}}</ref>
*In 1970, Pyle's nephew, Bruce L. Johnson, placed a memorial plaque at Pyle's burial site at the [[National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific]], [[Punchbowl Crater]], [[Honolulu]], [[Oahu]], Hawaii.<ref>{{cite journal| title =Lake Worth Couple to Make Ernie Pyle Pilgrimage 30th |journal=The Lake Worth Herald | location =Lake Worth, Florida|date=May 21, 1970}}</ref>
*On May 7, 1971, the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]] issued a 16-cent postage stamp in Pyle's honor.<ref>{{cite web| author=Roger S. Brody |title=16-cent | work =Arago: People, Postage & the Post |publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum | date =May 18, 2006|url=http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2038938 | access-date =January 15, 2019}}</ref>
*Indiana University's annual Ernie Pyle Scholars Honors Program was established in 2006 for incoming freshman honors students majoring in journalism.<ref>{{cite web| title =Ernie Pyle Scholars | publisher =Indiana University | url = http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/students-in-action/honors-programs/honors-ernie-pyle-scholars/ | access-date =January 16, 2019}}</ref>
*In 2014, sculptor [[Tuck Langland]] 's bronze statue of Pyle was erected in front of Franklin Hall on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Alison Graham |date=October 15, 2014 |title=Spelling error identified on new Ernie Pyle sculpture |url=http://www.idsnews.com/article/2014/10/spelling-error-on-ernie-pyle-statue |journal=Indiana Daily Student |access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> (The Indiana University School of Journalism, the department of Telecommunications, and the Department of Communication and Culture also merged in 2014 to establish the Indiana University Media School, which is housed in Franklin Hall<ref name=IDS7-26-18>{{cite journal| author=Dominick Jean, Cameron Drummond, and Murphy Wheeler| title =Inaugural Ernie Pyle Day: what it means and how to celebrate | journal =Indiana Daily Student | location =Bloomington | date =July 26, 2018| url = https://www.idsnews.com/article/2018/07/inaugural-ernie-pyle-day-what-that-means-and-how-to-celebrate-on-aug-3| access-date =January 16, 2019}}</ref>)
*The first annual Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation Scholarship of $1,000 was awarded in 2017 to a University of New Mexico journalism student.<ref>{{cite journal
| author=Rick Nathanson| title =Duck City to mark birthday of correspondent Ernie Pyle | journal =Albuquerque Journal | location =Albuquerque, New Mexico | date =July 10, 2018| url =https://www.abqjournal.com/1030683/duke-city-to-mark-birthday-of-correspondent-ernie-pyle.html| access-date =January 16, 2019}}</ref>
*August 3, 2018, the inaugural National Ernie Pyle Day, was the result of a Congressional resolution drafted by the [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]] from Indiana, [[Joe Donnelly]] and [[Todd Young]].<ref>{{cite journal| author=Alex Modesitt| title =Indiana, nation celebrate Ernie Pyle's legacy | journal =Tribune Star | location =Terre Haute, Indiana | date =August 3, 2018| url = https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/indiana-nation-celebrate-ernie-pyle-s-legacy/article_9ba56b12-25b5-58e6-8454-46ccf388b272.html| access-date =January 16, 2019}}</ref> [[Governor of Indiana|Indiana governor]] [[Eric Holcomb]] also proclaimed August 3, 2018, as Ernie Pyle Day in Indiana.<ref name=IDS7-26-18/>