THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, October 28, 2010
and 2,079 unidentified World War II dead from the Pacific. They came from such battle sites as Guadalcanal, China, Burma, Saipan, Guam, Okinawa and Iwo Jima and from prisoner of war camps in Japan. One hun- dred seventy-eight Wake Island dead were interred in a mass burial on July 10, 1953. Also interred in
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the cemetery are the un- identified remains of 848 U.S. servicemen who died fighting in Korea. Punchbowl is now filled
to capacity with 33,230 gravesites. Since August 1, 1991, burials have been at the Hawaii State Veter- ans Cemetery in Kaneohe, Hawaii on the island of Oahu.
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Downtown Honolulu and Diamond Head can be seen from what has come to be known as the Punchbowl Memorial, located in a collapsed volcanic crater high above the city.
1949. Seven hundred seventy-
six casualties from De- cember 7, 1941 attack were among the first to be interred at Punchbowl. The cemetery was open to burials on July 19, 1949, the date on which Ernie Pyle was interred; and it was dedicated on Septem- ber 2, 1949, the fourth anniversary of V-J Day. This cemetery is one of
Map shows the struggle for the Marianas and the islands of Tinian and Saipan during World War II.
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sions: that the location be acceptable to the War Department, and that the site would be donated rather than purchased. In 1943, the governor of Hawaii offered the Punch- bowl for a national cem- etery. The $50,000 ap- propriation proved insuf- ficient, however, and the project was deferred until after World War II. By 1947 Congress and
veteran organizations placed a great deal of pres- sure on the military to find a permanent burial site in Hawaii for the remains of thousands of World War II servicemen on the island of Guam awaiting perma- nent burial. Subsequent- ly, the Army again began planning the Punchbowl
Map shows where combat took place during the battle of the Philippine Sea in June of 1944.
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cemetery; in February 1948 Congress approved funding and construction began in August of 1948 and the first remains were interred on January 4,
return of the remains to the continental United States or requested that they be buried at Punch- bowl. Original burials in- cluded 11,597 identified
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