Marines from the Marine Barracks, Washington, (8th and I) participate in the full honors funeral of Marine Corps Pvt. Archie Newell in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 8, 2017. Assigned to Company C, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division in 1943, Newell died when his division attempted to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese. Though the battle lasted several days, Newell died on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943. Initially, after the fighting on Tarawa, service members were buried in a number of battlefie
Marines from the Marine Barracks, Washington, (8th and I) participate in the full honors funeral of Marine Corps Pvt. Archie Newell in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Dec. 8, 2017. Assigned to Company C, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division in 1943, Newell died when his division attempted to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese. Though the battle lasted several days, Newell died on the first day of battle, Nov. 20, 1943. Initially, after the fighting on Tarawa, service members were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio Island (but Newell’s remains were not recovered). By 1949, all remains yet to be identified were interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii. In October 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-044 from the Punchbowl and sent the remains to the laboratory for analysis. These remains were identified as Newell through dental, anthropological, and chemical analysis, which matched his records, as well as circumstantial and material evidence. ( Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
Size: 6869px × 4584px
Photo credit: © AB Forces News Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords:
