Laid To Rest

With the wreckage found, the remains of Dewey Hooper and the other eleven men were recovered and interred at the U.S. Armed Forces Cemetery at Ipswich, near Amberley—not far from where their B-24 had first taken off from. After the war, the remains were disinterred and taken to the U.S. Army Mausoleum at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. All twelve were finally laid to rest together on January 7, 1949, at the Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell, Nebraska, with a single tombstone for all twelve crash victims. Members of Dewey's family were able to attend the funeral, despite the fact that there had been a blizzard across the Midwest the week before, making travel difficult.

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Photograph of single tombstone for grave of Dewey Hooper and crash victims at Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Maxwell, Nebraska; the remains of all twelve casualties of the B-24 crash were laid to rest in this single grave on January 7, 1949.

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Photograph of section of Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell, Nebraska, which has the grave of Dewey Hooper and others killed in the B-24 crash. The single gravestone for all twelve casualties is in the foreground.