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War Department MIA Letter

  NOTE: This is a follow-up letter from the War Department, Washington, D.C., to the telegram of August 17, 1944, in which Cynthia Christ of Palisades, NJ, was notified as next of kin that Capt. Chris Brous was missing in action. The standard wording of this letter, dated August 19, 1944, carries the hopeful comment that "many persons reported missing in action are subsequently reported as prisoners of war." That turned out to be the case here, but was usually not the case. Note also the reassurance in paragraph #3 that the soldier's pay will still be coming to any dependents.

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