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by dmether
Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:17 am
Forum: Missing/Killed In Action (MIA/KIA)
Topic: POWS lost at Hiroshima {book Review} & links
Replies: 1
Views: 6162

Re: POWS lost at Hiroshima {book Review} & links

The remains of the American's killed at Hiroshima are known as Yokohama Mausoleum X-127 through X-135 were buried in a common urn. The first page of the file contains a letter dated 2 Mar 49 from Headquarters Eighth Army that says in reference to the remains "These remains were recovered at Hiroshim...
by dmether
Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:31 am
Forum: Wrecks & Losses
Topic: american graveyards in phillipines
Replies: 4
Views: 5651

Re: american graveyards in phillipines

The cemetery on Clark Air Base is still in use, but all the American's killed in WWII are up in the cemetery in Manila (except for a group of GIs executed for capital crimes in WWII, they are in Clark). The cemetery on Clark has burials going back to 1900, it contains Philippine Scouts, family membe...
by dmether
Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:18 am
Forum: Wrecks & Losses
Topic: american graveyards in phillipines
Replies: 4
Views: 5651

Re: american graveyards in phillipines

At the end of the war all of the US cemeteries in the Philippines were incorporated into the cemetery in Manila, none of the WWII cemeteries exist in the Philippines. I am an American living in the Philippines and have been to the site of some of them.