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Fort Moore Main Post Cemetery

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The first recorded interment occurred on 13 December 1922. Other burials at the cemetery include forty-four German and seven Italian prisoners of war who died at nearby detention camps during
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soldiers and their dependents have been interred at the 8.38-acre facility since it was established in 1922.
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recipients and twenty general officers interred at the cemetery.
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Index

Fort Moore
Georgia
United States Army
World War II
Medal of Honor
Donald R. Johnston
Robert B. Nett
Edward R. Schowalter Jr.
Marcus B. Bell
William B. Caldwell III
Edward Crook Jr.
Myron Diduryk
Harold G. Moore Jr.
Julia Compton Moore
Basil L. Plumley
George D. Shea
George R. Stotser
Thomas M. Tarpley
Robert L. Wetzel


"Fort Benning Main Post Cemetery"
"Lt. Gen. Sam Wetzel laid to rest at Fort Benning; 'We lost a mountain'"
"LTG George Raymond Stotser"
32°22′47″N 84°57′10″W / 32.37972°N 84.95278°W / 32.37972; -84.95278
Categories
Military cemeteries in the United States
1922 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Cemeteries established in the 1920s
Cemeteries in Georgia (U.S. state)

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