His mother’s sister was married to revered World War II journalist and author, Ernie Pyle, with whom Bruce had a close relationship and who was killed only a few miles from where Johnson was, on the island of Ie Shima.
Ernie Pyle has a chapter about Klondike Kate (who he calls Kate Rothrock) in his book Home Country
Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), World War I veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII war correspondent
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The cemetery opened to the public on July 19, 1949, with services for five war dead: an unknown serviceman, two Marines, an Army lieutenant and one noted civilian war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
Tennessee Ernie Ford | Ernie Royal | Ernie | Ernie Kovacs | Howard Pyle | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Gomer Pyle | Ernie Eves | Ernie Ball | Ernie Fletcher | Ernie Banks | Underground Ernie | Ernie Harwell | Ernie Fields | Robert Michael Pyle | Missi Pyle | Ernie Vandeweghe | Ernie Pyle | Ernie Lombardi | Ernie Davis | Ernie Conwell | Evil Ernie | Ernie Whitt | Ernie Nevers | Ernie Kent | Ernie Johnson | Ernie Hunt | Ernie Hudson | Ernie Hicke | Ernie Hawkins |