A tribute to Ernie Pyle built from dramatized passages of Brave Men rather than one continuous story. The program moves among infantrymen waiting for battle, battlefield deaths, exhausted troops, small moments of tenderness and Pyle's observations about the bond among men living constantly with death. It repeatedly contrasts the reality of casualties with the simplified picture of victory at home, then closes by recalling Pyle's own death on Ie Shima and the soldiers who buried him as one of their own.
This Words at War broadcast aired on April 24, 1945. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Tom Glazer, Karl Swenson, Jim Boles, Walter Kinsella, and Paul Mann. Other credited names include Garnet Garrison as director, Gerald Holland as radio adaptor, and Howard Duff as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.
This version dramatizes Brave Men. Ernie Pyle is credited as author and Gerald Holland adapted it for radio.
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