| Show BEHIND THE N NEWS NEWS' WS 1 Army Rivals Sherlock Few Feats To Identify War Dead D d i By ROGER ROOER WARREN Note During Daring Ray Tuckers Tucker's vacation Roger ROJer Warren h Is writIng writ- writ In lag Ing Behind the News Ne The quartermaster corps acting actIng acting act- act Ing for all aU services Is completing ing arrangements for bringing I home the first of the war dead The remains of from tom Pearl Harbor will arrive arrhe in San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco on October 25 with bodies t f from r rom o m the European theater As of today more than I next of kin I have been asked to state whether they wish their i loved ones to rest in overseas gfa graves s or be brought to this country and buried In national or private cemeteries Seventy Seventy- one of every cery hundred queried wanted the thc boys brought home In the last war 61 p per r cent requested requested requested re re- re- re quested similar transport transportation Uon A mother mather who lost four sons asked that they be buried in the village graveyard Latest official figures lr show that have nave been Identified tied lied and h have ve not As time goes gocs on many in this latter category will wUl be known But in inthis inthis this war several thousand went down in ships or disappeared in inthe inthe inthe the arctic and jungle wastes Special burial teams are combing combing comb comb- ing the tropical forests remote mountain ranges and frozen north for tor lost gra graves s. s whenever weather permits Heavy rains and rapid jungle growth obliterate obliterate ate ale traces of ot airplane wreckage but the searchers keep on trackIng tracking tracking track- track Ing down eV every f possible clue due They risk their lives in exposure exposure exposure ex ex- to tropical diseases or in flying over o the tho hump between India and China in blinding blinding- storms Bandits and savages savage now camp on abandoned forward airfields airfield in Burma and many times teams have haye to fight their way clear Stories of how our unknown dead are identified rank with the tales of ot cleverest detective work Dog ta tags laundry marks mark finger prints dental charts and records all aU serve in the solving of ot mysteries Fluoroscopes and other modern laboratory tools are used Anthropologists ex x examine amine amino bone bon formations and from them deduce ph physical characteristics characteristics charac charac- of or the dead The perfect ct matching of two entirely different sets seta of ot records settled the Identity of ot the occupant occupant oc oc- of one nameless grave Seven planes were on a a. mission over Europe one failed to re re- turn Later a member of the French underground t that he had an aI Amy aircraft shot down He He- an d resistance workers worker b litho li- li l tho flyer In the fo fon r. r The I Iso exhumed boy body U h so badly burned th that t t tn J Identity were Impossible to A Records of or plane piano flight 1 checked One i ro nt a In the vicinity Pa Papers Pero o tho the position of each a h every stage Of the trip w ship had been ever hit over OYer the the in the forest at t th the S that at the under underground w had witnessed t the en cash case was solved s sA A A. Chinese cook in Korea Korey I B a ring to a Ii United Stat States I 11 captain which he said ld hac at d t given to him by a Korean Kortan A ring ring- was of American America a de with initials on the b b. nd r gi 1 I ly the Korean was lees located I he swore that the rin ring rin hid had 1 handed to him by a United a I flyer just before th the j Jai had executed him Burial teams Korta j a in Korea Olta unable the FBI to trace OWne Jl In the Unit United M was called in men Q-men i 1 covered that the the- particular particulars was manufactured b by only i t jewelry firms finns n h the Ono One of ot the t three in b bAtU Attl AtU Mass affirmed that It had hadi l that particular series serje f t fp Maine high school class in 1937 1931 Sch School t r i showed that one o of ot f the grade tt m had been a flyer hi in 11 the ft pa hand and had flown over Kore grave ultimately was la kie with the help of the l Kw or mj I The graves Ice has hns swept 80 different t e tries in il which th the AtOa OI armed forces served 45 bodi bodies 3 ha have been n found tO j jmiles miles from home borne At t tha tho of the war teams team were ally all to search parts of at Rus Rum Siberia Although such 7 is not permitted today Wai Ww ya yaton ton authorities art are that no bodies now t the Soviet Union We can hunt in other countries i ithe the iron curtain |
