Ernie Pyle
This goo was worth a point in August 2025.
publication date: Sunday, August 31, 2025 (part of August 2025)
category: 
Journalism
clue: This chronicler of the WWII troop experience was neither private like his TV namesake, nor a goober like that man's cousin.
explanation: Pyle was a human interest reporter who spent most of WWII embedded with troops and reporting on the war from their perspective, including difficult details rather than keeping them private from the public. The clue references the characters Pvt. Gomer Pyle and Goober Pyle from The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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