Ernie Pyle (1900–1945) was among the most widely read American war correspondents of World War II; his reports on the everyday life of ordinary soldiers appeared in hundreds of U.S. newspapers. Jack Lieb met him in spring 1944 in southern England, where correspondents and troops waited together for the impending invasion campaign. The color footage was taken during the preparation phase, which forms the first section of Lieb’s film. Pyle himself landed in Normandy and reported from the front; he was killed in April 1945 on the Pacific island of Ie Shima.