Brookwood American Military Cemetery: With the advent of merica's traditional day of homage to its war…

Brookwood American Military Cemetery

SC 189779Field no. ETO-HQ-44-2833RG 111

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With the advent of merica's traditional day of homage to its war dead, these views are released to show soldier graves abroad. Brookwood American Military Cemetery near London, England, is often visited by U.S. soldiers who come to decorate the graves of their buddies. Sergt. Alan B. Furdy, 13 Tompkins Ave., Ossining, N.Y., radio operator of a D-17 Flying Fortress bomber which crashed, holding the nine other crew members, places a wreath on the grave of his assistant radio operator. These wooden crosses will be replaced with marble markers. U. S. dead of world was I are also buried here. England, March 6, 1944.

Place: Brookwood American Military Cemetery · approximate position
Photographer: Ray
People: Alan B. Furdy
SC number: 189779
Field number: ETO-HQ-44-2833
Source: U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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