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Return of US soldier dead from France marked by solemn rites
Historian Jessie Dell details the Quartermaster Corps task of bringing home 44 418 American war dead. About 1 224 coffins arrived in New York on March 30. 325 remain overseas. The piece honors the burial process, graves registration, and the national cemeteries in France and Belgium, including Romagne Argonne and Belleau.
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Quartermaster Corps
United States Army
Stars and Stripes
Cambrai
New York
France
United States
America
H. L. Rogers
Army
Consignee 18
Brest
St. Nazaire
Bordeaux
Toulon
Cherbourg
Calais
Antwerp
Belgium
Romagne
Thiacourt
Belleau
Les Americains
Washington
Cemeterial
Atlantic
Air Service
Secretary of War
Charles Moore
National Fine Arts Commission
James L. Greenleaf
William Mitchell Kendall
Argonne
Union
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Lafayette
Romagne-Argonne
Les
Chateau- Thierry
Paris
Suresnes
Seine
Washington Boulevard
Flanders Fields
Hindenburg
Flanders