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Antwerp ceremony honors U.S. dead from World War II, 1947

By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 24, 2012
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Chris Butler ©Stars and Stripes
Antwerp, Belgium, October, 1947: A soldier, a sailor and a Marine stand guard at a flag-draped coffin in Antwerp's main square during ceremonies marking the departure of the first bodies of Americans killed in World War II to be sent back to the States.

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