THE ALLIED ARMIES IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - American guard of honour with the coffin during the burial service at the cemetery, 26 January 1943. On 25 January 1943 an aircraft taking fourteen Allied war correspondents to the Casablanca Conference mistakenly flew over Larache in Spanish Morocco and was fired on by a Spanish anti-aircraft battery. The correspondents huddled on the floor of the plane as hits were registered on the wings and fuselage. One tracer bullet which came through the fuselage struck Edouard (Eddie) Beaudry, the correspondent and broadcaster for the
THE ALLIED ARMIES IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - American guard of honour with the coffin during the burial service at the cemetery, 26 January 1943. On 25 January 1943 an aircraft taking fourteen Allied war correspondents to the Casablanca Conference mistakenly flew over Larache in Spanish Morocco and was fired on by a Spanish anti-aircraft battery. The correspondents huddled on the floor of the plane as hits were registered on the wings and fuselage. One tracer bullet which came through the fuselage struck Edouard (Eddie) Beaudry, the correspondent and broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, in the forehead. He died shortly after the plane, which went immediately out to the sea, arrived at Port Lyautey (Kenitra) in French military funeral was held for Mr Beaudry the next day in the US war cemetery near Port Lyautey where he was buried alongside the graves of American soldiers who died in action there in November 1942. A wreath was placed on his grave in the name of (and at the personal direction) President Roosevelt and a second wreath was placed in the name of the British Commonwealth, British Army, British Army, 1st Army, US Army
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