Pentagon releases 360 photos

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http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/04/28pentagonrelease.html




Pentagon releases 360 photos
Images turned over a year after UD professor requests them
By VICTOR GRETO / The News Journal
04/28/2005DOVER -- Just a short jet trail from the air force base where it all started, Ralph Begleiter announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense released to him and the National Security Archive 360 additional photographs of soldiers' remains as they were returned to U.S. bases, from Dover to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.

Some photos also are of burials at sea.

Begleiter, the 55-year-old former CNN reporter who is in his fifth year of teaching broadcast journalism at the University of Delaware, made the announcement while speaking to several dozen members of the Delaware Council for the Social Studies at its annual awards banquet at the Lobby House, near downtown.

Begleiter showed the teachers one "heartstopper" photo in the newly released batch, which showed a line of sailors from the USS Enterprise from May 19 of last year releasing a metal casket into the sea.

The photo, however, had been released previously, and can be seen on a Navy news Web site. To date, Begleiter has received 721 photographs from the Pentagon, 361 that were previously released. The newest batch of 360 are heavily edited and include at least one photograph of flag-covered coffins in a convoy of Humvees moving through an undisclosed war zone.

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