Mortuary Affairs in World War II

Recovery in 1959 of B-24 Bomber crew lost in Libyan Desert in 1943 Story of the 1959-60 search for and recovery of crew members of the B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan Desert 16 years after it lost its way back from a World…

Colonel A.C. Ramsey, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewSeptember-October 1945 LOCATED at Folembray, France, fourteen miles from Soissons, and five miles from Chauny, near the site of one of the German “Big Bertha” guns which shelled Paris during the last war,…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

Quartermaster Review-May/June 1946Graves Registration search and recovery operations after World War II Note: At the time this article was written the term Graves Registration was used for what is now call Mortuary Affairs. The most intensive search in history is…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

COL Elbert E. LeggQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Autumn/Winter 1994 This narrative relates some of my personal experiences as a sergeant squad leader in the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company in the first days of the Allied invasion at Normandy,…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

by Major Scott T. Glass Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Autumn 1997 The author thanks First Sergeant Francis Miner of the 3060th Quartermaster Company,Colonel David A. Pergrin of the 291st Engineer Battalion, Joseph Potten of Malmedy, and Henri Rogister of Liege,…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

Dr. Steven AndersQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Autumn/Winter 1994CARE OF THE WAR DEAD . . . During World War II, the U.S. Government called to service approximately 15,000,000 men and women. The number of American war dead totaled around 359,000, of which…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

1946 Pamphlet Produced by the Quartermaster Corps for Next of Kin of Deceased Service Personnel from World War II “Tell me about my boy” is the request most frequently sent to the quartermaster general of the army by next of kin who want additional information on the…

Mortuary Affairs in World War II

World War II Identification, Undated U.S. Army Photo Munda Cemetery #1, New Georgia, September 1943, U.S. Army Photo Personal Effects being checked at a collection point in the European Theater, Undated U.S. Army Photo Army Chaplain Francis L. Sampson of Sioux Falls,…

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