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                       A grave's mystery and Place

                    Called through time and space

                      For it's path to be traced - -

                 So this grave's man can be graced

                     With name, home and face.

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           This book's charge to all must also be

                    COMMEMO

                                    now and evermore.

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       Isolated World War Two Grave
               Author & Bernard Leguillier at the grave before it was identified.

         The, unrecognized by the United States of America,
common grave of three American Airmen of World War
Two.  When the B-24-J, SN: 42-51225 crashed at nearby
Tincourt-Boucly, early on the morning of  November 10,
1944, the American soldiers who recovered the shattered
remains of the three men killed in the crash hid the majority
of the remains recovered in an unmarked grave alongside
a road near Cartigny.  Unknown to the Americans hiding
the remains, they were observed by a Frenchman making
his way home from the crash site.  On the 23rd of November,
1944, the villagers of Cartigny moved the hidden American
dead to their village cemetery.

         For the story of the only witnessed and documented case of American
soldiers finding and hiding American World War Two Dead order the book,
The Last Flight Of 'The Lady Jeannette'  by contacting the Webmaster at
ww1@ww1.org.                         

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