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U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant Clarence E. Gibbs served with the 3681 Bombardment Squadron. Gibbs’ aircraft was hit during a bombing mission over Bingen, Germany on Dec. 29, 1944.
After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German medical research, are being sent home.
The remains of three World War II soldiers have returned home to be interred with full military honors. The three soldiers ...
These sacrificial pits, which were more like treasure troves, held the remnants of houses, ceramic vessels, human and animal ...
More than a century after their remains were sent to Germany for racially biased phrenology research, the skulls of 19 African Americans have been returned to New Orleans to be laid to rest.
Yet even as the country has sought to avoid reminders of its history, the remains of that past keep turning up — the war graves of 8,000 to 12,000 Germans are uncovered each year.
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee, who was killed during World War II, will be interred with full military honors April 4 at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery ...
U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant Clarence E. Gibbs served with the 3681 Bombardment Squadron. Gibbs’ aircraft was hit during a bombing mission over Bingen, Germany on Dec. 29, 1944.