Procurement of supplies and services by War and Navy Departments.
Subtitle: Shipment and burial of remains of World War II dead. Hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1366, an act to facilitate procurement of supplies and services by the War and Navy Departments, and for other purposes, and H.R. 3394, an act to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for the evacuation and return of the remains of certain persons who died and are buried outside the continental limits of the United States," approved May 16, 1946, in order to provide for the shipment of the remains of World War II dead to the homeland of the deceased, or of next of kin; to provide for the disposition of group and mass burials; to provide for the burial of unknown American World War II dead in the United States military cemeteries to be established overseas; to authorize the Secretary of War to acquire land overseas and to establish United States military cemeteries thereon, and for other purposes. June 24, 1947.
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: United States. Army -- Supplies and stores; United States. Navy -- Supplies and stores; Letting of contracts; Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
Notes: Chan Gurney, chairman.