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5 unusual facts about National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific


National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Ernie Pyle (1900–1945), World War I veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII war correspondent

John "Jack" Chevigny, Norte Dame football player (said, "that's one for the Gipper" in 1928 game) who was killed on Iwo Jima.

Charles L. Veach (1944–1995), USAF fighter pilot and NASA astronaut

After their retreat in 1950, dead Soldiers and Marines were buried at a temporary gravesite near Hungnam, North Korea.

The cemetery opened to the public on July 19, 1949, with services for five war dead: an unknown serviceman, two Marines, an Army lieutenant and one noted civilian war correspondent Ernie Pyle.



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