Funeral Ship Brings Bodies From Europe
NEW YORK, Sun. (11.30 a.m.).— Church bells tolled, flags flew at halfmast, a salue of 21 guns boomed across the harbour and 100 planes circled overhead as an army transport, the Joseph V. Connally, entered New York today with the bodies of 6200 American s Idiers killed on European battlefields. The bodies were the first to be returned to the United States for reburial from Europe.
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Northern Advocate, 27 October 1947, Page 7
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