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Subscriber only AN Ipswich woman is pushing for commemorative services to return to the site of the burial of more than 1000 US soldiers who helped defend Australia and the Pacific during WWII. Manson Park at Raceview is still home to a memorial to the American soldiers, but was once also the site where more than 1400 men were buried. Two years after the war ended, 140 Ipswich people helped exhume the bodies of the American soldiers so they could be taken home. Charlotte Harding said she was heartbroken when she went to the memorial on Anzac Day and realised there were no wreaths left behind to commemorate the soldiers.
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Subscriber only AN Ipswich woman is pushing for commemorative services to return to the site of the burial of more than 1000 US soldiers who helped defend Australia and the Pacific during WWII. Manson Park at Raceview is still home to a memorial to the American soldiers, but was once also the site where more than 1400 men were buried. Two years after the war ended, 140 Ipswich people helped exhume the bodies of the American soldiers so they could be taken home. Charlotte Harding said she was heartbroken when she went to the memorial on Anzac Day and realised there were no wreaths left behind to commemorate the soldiers.