CSPAN3 American Artifacts November 8, 2015
Ernie pyle actually walked to the beaches at normandy where andAmerican Forces landed, he saw all the pieces of war left over. What we have in this case is actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. Pyle writes about what he found. You can see he talked about shoe les,sh, sewing kits, bib hand grenades, toothbrushes, razors. He particularly singles out in his column writing paper. Young menbout how the who gave their lives at normandy intended to write an awful lot of letters back home. The other thing they had an awful lot of was cigarettes. He said that packs of cigarettes had be...