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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...
By Edward SteereQuartermaster Review, September - October 1953 Within 15 years following the termination of the Civil War in America, the War Department had created a national cemeterial system, with administrative control vested in the Quartermaster General. After...
Part II The Quartermaster ReviewJanuary-February 1964 In depth article on selection of World War II & Korean War Unknown Soldiers Since Memorial Day, great interest has been expressed in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. In the September-October 1963 issue,...
Pictures are thumbnailed for fast loading. Please click the picture to see the enlarged image. To return, press the "BACK" button in your browser) World War IHow a grave is marked by the Graves Registration Service, Q.M.C.cross has both the identity tag and plate...
Quartermaster Review-July/August 1954Search and recovery operations in the Korean War Note: At the time this article was written the term Graves Registration was used for what is now call Mortuary Affairs. SILENTLY searching every foot of the South Korean countryside...
OL 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,...
by Edward SteereQuartermaster Review, November - December 1953 As aptly stated by Quartermaster General M. I. Ludington in 1899, the return of Spanish American War dead from Cuba and Puerto Rico for private burial by their relatives, or for reinterment at public cost...
By Lt. Donald R. Neil, Q. M. C.The Quartermaster ReviewJanuary-February 1932 Details of the construction of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier AFTER a period of over two years, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is now in its final stage of completion, and is...
Cpl. William R. Davidson of Philadelphia, Pa., 114th Graves Registration Co., Quartermaster Corps, fills out a Form 52B, giving information regarding a deceased American soldier at the UN Cemetery at Taegu, Korea. At right are (l-r) marker (cross), unidentified...
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,...