David Quinn, 24, a first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was killed on an island in the Pacific in 1943 during a bloody battle with the Japanese.
His family was told his body was lost at sea, but many years later his nephew came across a letter to Quinn's widow from a fellow Marine saying that Quinn's body had been buried on a beach underneath a white cross.
David Quinn, 24, a first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was killed on an island in the Pacific in 1943 during a bloody battle with the Japanese.
His family was told his body was lost at sea, but many years later his nephew came across a letter to Quinn's widow from a fellow Marine saying that Quinn's body had been buried on a beach underneath a white cross.…
