He comes with a field jacket, utility cap, trousers, scarf, boots and a canteen, all the G.I. Joe basics. But this might be the only action figure ever to pack a typewriter instead of a gun. And it's certainly the only one that ever came with a miniature newspaper story.

Hasbro's new Ernie Pyle figure commemorates the famed World War II correspondent whose dispatches from the front lines defined for many Americans what the war was like for ordinary soldiers. He won a Pulitzer for distinguished war correspondence in 1944.

The figure is part of Hasbro's G.I. ...

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