Marine Private Edwin Francis Benson’s Repatriation from Tarawa

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 07:01:00 GMT

Whenever Edgar and Mary Argensinger asked their grandmother what happened to their Uncle John in World War II, she always told them the same thing: Her son was “blown to bits” on a Pacific Atoll called Tarawa. That’s why his body was never returned to her.

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Marine Private Edwin Francis Benson’s Repatriation from Tarawa