World War II soldiers would love e-mail

I remember reading a book about the life of Ernie Pyle, who was a famous World War II combat correspondent. His gritty, realistic stories into the lives of the men fighting that war captivated a newspaper-dependent nation thousands of miles away. Mothers and wives hoped that Pyle would find their son or husband and write about him. Because the story was printed faster than mail, it was the fastest way for women to find out about their fighting men.