World War II Primary Sources | Ernie Pyle

"Notes from a Battered Country"

"The Death of Captain Waskow"

"I Thought It Was the End"

"Waiting for Tomorrow"

"On Victory in Europe"

Excerpts from Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches Written by Ernie Pyle between 1943 and 1945Collected and published in book form, 1986

The battles of World War II (1939-45) spread beyond Europe and Asia to the continent of Africa when Italian forces invaded the northeast African country of Egypt in September of 1940. The northern tip of Africa is separated from Italy by the Mediterranean Sea and Italy wanted to expand its territory into North Africa. Italy's ally Germany landed troops in North Africa in February, 1941. By 1942 the northwest African regions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia had been invaded by German and Italian—or...