Georges Carpentier, heavyweight boxer (the second figure from the
left).]
“Already, Captain Zinn’s quest has led him over the greater part of
northern France and into Belgium and Germany. Through the torn fields
and woods in the Verdun, Château-Thierry, St. Mihiel, and Meuse
sectors he has gone. He has tramped through the Argonne to Sedan and
sought in the mountains that encircle Metz and hide the valley of the
Moselle. Wherever there was fighting in which the American Air Service
participated, there has gone, or will go, Zinn.
“Out of 150 missing American aviators, Captain Zinn already has
definitely located and identified the spots where seventy fell and were
buried. It has required many days of painstaking search and inquiry to
attain this result.
“Captain Zinn has found that in a great many cases American fliers
were buried either by the Germans or by civilians with no mark of
identification left on them.