AMERICA TAKING HER DEAD BACK HOME
NEW YORK, May 15. All fhe recoyierabie Auierica}i war dead would be'taken out' of the Pacific theatre within 12 jn°nths, ^id Colonel'George Bare, chief of the united Statgs'iVar CJraves R^gistrafion sion, today. Tlie war dead would be transferred either to *a permanent ihilitary cemefery ip or to IJnifed Statg^, at tjxe ogtfon of rela1 ilv.es, and it was ejstiniared froni requests already' feceived, that ahOut ,75 per cent' Of relativ^s y/PUld wapt their dead retxrrne.d .to United ^f.afes where most would ' be biiried iri' private rather thah "national cemeteries. The StatO's Government has prdered 256,0.0,0 ^teel cpffiijg jo bri^g bacjr the dead ff om glf' th'e theatres. They will he carried m Liherty "ships converted for the pjprpo'se, one of Which is alre.ady on its way to Europe. Cofohel Bare said he did nor kno-w yet when'the*,shipslwoMd feavO San Francisco for the Pacific ' area but it wo)b,d b,e Septemhef or October".
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 5
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