Ernie Pyle And His Dog -- Ernie Pyle and his Shetland Sheep dog Cheetah Sun Themselves on the Mesa outside his home in Albuquerque, N.M. after the Noted Correspondent and Author returned from the European Theater of Operations. Pyle was reported April 18 to have been Killed in on Ie Jima, Northwest of Okinawa, by a Japanese Machine gun gullet. April 18, 1945. (Photo by Bob Landry, Associated Press Photo).