Israel military officials will pay a final tribute to Maj. Gen. Orde C. Wingate, British officer who helped train the Haganah, tomorrow at re-interment services at Arlington National Cemetery here.
Gen. Wingate will be re-buried with the remains of U.S. Army Air Force men with whom he died in an air crash in Burma on March 25, 1944. The impact of the crash was such that individual bodies were indistinguishable.
Israel military attache Colonel Chaim Hergog and Wing Commander Yehuda Giladi will participate in memorial services and lay a wreath on the grave. American Air Force Chief of Chaplaine Major General Charles Carpenter will officiate. High ranking British officers will also take part.
During his service as a British intelligence officer in Palestine, Wingate organized special units among the Haganah. At Ain Harod, in the Emek, Wingate expanded facilities at a school which treined Haganah officers. He organized special “night squads” of Jews who helped put down Arab uprisinge and defended the oil pipeline from Iraq to Haifa.
The remains were first buried in India end later removed to a single mousolem at Manila, in the Philippine Islands. The final burial at Arlington was agreed to by the British Government because a majority of those involved in the oresh were American.
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