Index: Time past--returned home for burial
| Name of Veteran | Home County |
| Drewelow, Raymond J. | Chickasaw |
| Estill, Shannon Eugene | Linn |
| Griswold, Gerald W. | Buchanan |
| Hess, Donald W. | Woodbury |
| Nodland, Franklin Merrill | Marshall |
Washington, D. C. – (AP) – The Department of the Army
announced yesterday the names of 60 Iowans whose bodies are being returned to
the United States aboard the USS Joseph V. Connolly in accordance with the
wishes of next of kin.
The first of the nation’s World war
II dead to be returned from Europe will arrive at New York today when the
Connolly enters New York’s flower-strewn harbor with the bodies of 6,200
American servicemen. Officials of the federal, state and city governments and
the combined military services will join with thousands of citizens in honoring
the heroic dead and their relatives.
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