Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the men of the Graves Registration Service were faced with an appalling, sickening task: probing into a mixture of earth, rotting equipment and decaying flesh to find a few bones large enough to pass for the remains of the man whose name appeared on the cross above...
...Hope. Servicemen still in the Pacific hoped that this would be the last journey for their dead comrades. So did the only war widow who has yet visited her husband's grave in a Pacific battlefield. Said Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews, whose husband, Second Lieut. Ernest A. Matthews, died at Tarawa...
This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...
...last of their line. They came, like the Army itself, from all over the U.S.-whites and Negroes, officers and enlisted men, and one nurse and one WAC (TIME, March 11). There was no saluting; all ranks were billeted together, first in the Bull Hotel (run by the Red Cross) and the colleges, later in Army huts...
Died. Mabel Thorp Boardman, 85, queenly* humanitarian who in 40 years as unpaid national secretary of the American Red Cross built on Clara Barton's idea a world-famed organization with 29,000,000 member-contributors ; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...