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741st ROB Headquarters List
8:27 PM | Labels: 741st Railway Operating Battalion, roster | 0 Comments
Dutch family tends grave of Bend soldier Emmet C. De Laney died in the last days of WWII
* I frequently hear from the European ( Belgium and France) families that take care of these graves as the try to learn more about their soldier -- it's just wonderful and not commonly known.
Jonas Daemen
woke Sunday in the Dutch village of Heerlen, loaded some flowers into
the family car and made the half-hour drive to a green swath on the edge
of the village of Margraten.

The white marble cross is chiseled with the name of a man his family has known for 72 years:
EMMETT C. DE LANEY
T. Sgt 736 Tk Bn
Oregon April 19 1945
Jonas is the newest guardian of this one small plot of hallowed ground
holding the remains of a Bend box factory worker who went off to war and
never came back.
Since 1945, De Laney’s grave has been watched over by four generations of Jonas’ family.
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7:58 AM | Labels: ROB Killed in Action- Buried abroad | 0 Comments
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