Casket Shipping Container

Gift of Nancy Schoenherr, 2010.460.012

The bodies of roughly 233,000 Americans were returned to the US in the years following WWII. This coffin box was used to ship the coffin and body of Melvin G. Wiesman, KIA July 30, 1944, from France, where he had been buried, to his hometown in Wisconsin in 1948.