Not only did Eisenhower make Gettysburg his retirement home-no doubt strolling past these many graves in the National Cemetery from time to time-but Ike spent much of his post-war life reflecting on the sacrifices so many had made. The connection between these World War II stories and Dwight Eisenhower is significant. Included in these videos are stories of veterans, as well, and the ways they continued to serve after the war. Their stories remind us of the multiple ways the legacy of World War II can be felt in Gettysburg. These individuals served and died in places such as Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, North Africa, Normandy, the Ardennes Forrest, and Okinawa. This video series highlight specific stories of World War II soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who were buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery during and after the Second World War. National Park Service officials in Gettysburg believed that it was because of Gettysburg’s status as “a national shrine” that so many families chose to have their loved ones buried here. Some families chose to have their loved ones buried in plots in private cemeteries, while others chose national cemeteries such as Gettysburg. government brought these honored dead home for their final burial.
Starting in 1947, at the cost of $545 per serviceman, the U.S. Ultimately, over 171,000 families chose to have their loved ones brought home for burial in the United States. Over 270,000 questionnaires were sent to Gold Star families across the United States. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States government embarked upon an effort to repatriate the bodies of its military dead based upon the wishes of their next of kin. From the wartime years-when burials occurred for servicemen who died during training accidents-to the post-war years, which saw a massive repatriation of American World War II dead from nearly every corner of the globe, these burials in Gettysburg tell the vast and complex story of American involvement in the Second World War.
Gettysburg National Cemetery is the final resting place of 590 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and other enlisted personnel who died during the Second World War. President Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 NPS Photo "That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." Headstones of WWII servicemen buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery
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