Val and Grace, Thanks. Dave Witthans ============================== ----- Original Message ----- From: grace w gathman To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] WWII clarifications maybe Maybe because we were still fighting a war over there. We went into the second world war in 1941 and some of the bodies were not returned until 1951 and later. When my husband got to the Philippines in 1945 some of the smaller islands still had Japanese soldiers on them. As our armies pushed further north they left pockets of these behind. Some of the POWs had died years before the survivors were liberated. Just my thoughts. Our government was very good about having bodies returned if the next of kin so wished. Also about getting servicemen back to the States when their time was up. I have an English cousin who served in Burma and he had to stay there almost two years because it was not a priority of the English to get their servicemen home. Grace ============================== ----- Original Message ----- From: .... valentine53179 To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] WWII clarifications maaybe sorry for confusion... i know that from the phillipines... this luzon/luzan place... that the dead were not returned home IMMEDIATELY... dont know why exactly buti know that it happened based on my own research... and in my case, i found it using the cemetery as the starting point.. not the other way around as in sharons case... she found the PLACE after she found out abut the delay.... so my point...is if you see something in a death record at a church or at a cemetery and it shows a burial significantly after the death, consider an earlier place fore additional information... reinterments are not frequent BUT when they do occur in non-military instances there is usually a court record or some correspondence between the cemeteries and or the funeral homes and OTHER names may be involved that can offer more avenues to research..... when i said excellent.. it was as a follow up to my suggestion that if people found a name in the link that i submitted that was of help to post it to the list so that others can SEE what is available as well as building the archives with INFORMATION..not just hints and links... is this better?