UNKNOWN WARRIOR OF WORLD WAR TWO
Received Tuo.-day, S p.m. NEW YORK, Bept. 8.
America's Unkmjwn Soldier of the Second World War will be br-mght home from oversesm near tlie end of 1949 to lie in lionour in the Arlington National Cemetery, according to present War Department plans. The branch of the armed forces in which he servea will remain a secret and even the theatre of war in which he was killed will be unknown. When the time eomes for reburial nine: uniden-tified bodies will be brought to a rendezvous from the nine zones of c.'mBat in the east and west. This will not happen until all the war dead .yvho have been iaentilied and whose re'aiives wish them to be returned, have rcached the United States. There are 285,00') identifled army war dead in oversea cemeierics. Between 25,000 and 30,000 sailors and marines lie in Ifuown graves. The searcli for the missing is SLill going on and it is expected that about 13,000 more army dead wiJl be located including many airmen* lost in isolated areas. It is estimated that more than 16,000 will never be recovered.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1947, Page 5
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