Family Confirmation

On May 3, 1948. Effie Stauffer sent a collect telegram responding to a request that she confirm information sent earlier regarding James' return home.

   The telegram that she responded to is not available but it undoubtedly listed details regarding name, rank and serial number of her son as well as the intended destination, etc.

Receipt of Remains

A form letter from the Quartermaster Corps was sent to the McCardell Funeral home notifying them that James' casket would arrive in Cresson, PA at 5:51 pm, May 14, 1948.

   The McCardell morticians then transported James' casket to Burnside, PA for a funeral service and interment in a local cemetery.

This document was prepared by the Graves Registration Services teams and sent to the next of kin for each man that was buried in a temporary cemetery.

   The document fully details the individual by name, rank and serial number including a copy of the man's dog tag.

   Also listed are the personal effects which presumably were sent to James' mother.

Grave marker for James B. Stauffer, Plot I, Row 6, Grave 115 in Blosville, France. 

The Blosville-Carentan cemetery was established as a temporary cemetery to accommodate the burials of those killed in action during the early stages of the invasion of Normandy.  He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart

According to the Report of Burial (at let) the grave of Pvt. Roy Chipman, also of Company F, 508th was immediately to the right of Pvt. Stauffer's..