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Solemn Solomons Cemeteries: WWII Burial Practices in the South Pacific (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The U.S. military commenced Operations Watchtower and Toenails with little planning for battlefield burials. In the Solomon Islands, the Allied forces established ad hoc cemeteries on several islands and developed rudimentary plans for dealing with the hundreds of service members killed in action. As a...