In 1945's "Story of G.I. Joe", Burgess played this Pulitzer-winning war journalist who was killed by a sniper that year
Joe (1945) directed by William A. Wellman ... [PAR] War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this ... Burgess 
Meridith plays war correspondent Ernie Pyle but the plot focuses ... the film is an 
adaptation of Ernie Pyle's Pulitzer Prize War dispatches.