{"id":77217,"date":"2017-09-29T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:33:56","slug":"remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis, 73, said as she and other family members awaited the arrival at Kennedy Airport on Friday of a flight carrying the casket with the remains of Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone. The Pentagon announced in July that his remains had been identified among those of other unknown servicemen killed in a bloody Pacific battle and reburied in Hawaii after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 20-year-old Brooklyn native was serving with the 2nd Marine Division when he was killed during the assault on Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands, about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii, on Nov. 20, 1943. He died early on the first day of the three-day battle to take the tiny coral island from the Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of six children born into a tightknit Italian-American family living near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Carbone was 19 when he enlisted in the Marines, a year after the Pearl Harbor attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than a year later, he was among the first waves of U.S. Marines and sailors to land at Tarawa. When the battle was over, more than 1,000 Americans were dead, along with nearly all the 5,000 Japanese soldiers defending the island. Carbone was listed as killed in action and his remains deemed unrecoverable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of the Americans who died were hastily buried in dozens of locations on Tarawa, where U.S. engineers quickly got to work repairing the airfield. Some of the gravesites were paved over or otherwise lost. After the war, military teams disinterred more than 500 sets of remains and took them to Hawaii in an attempt to identify them. Those that couldn\u2019t be identified were reburied as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, known as the Punchbowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2993\" height=\"2350\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg 2993w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg?resize=300,236 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg?resize=768,603 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,804 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1206 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tarawa-atoll.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1608 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2993px) 100vw, 2993px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With two captured Japanese naval guns as a backdrop, a lone U.S. Marine is patroling the beach at Tarawa atoll, December 6, 1943, during the invasion of Gilbert Islands in World War II. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few years ago, Lewis learned of ongoing efforts to identify missing-in-action servicemen from WWII. She provided a DNA sample to the Pentagon office in charge of recovering and identifying the nation\u2019s war dead. The move paid off when military officials used her DNA to help identify Carbone\u2019s remains, which had been exhumed last fall from the Punchbowl after the Pentagon approved the exhumation of 94 sets of remains of Tarawa unknown servicemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was ecstatic,\u201d said Lewis, a retired receptionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lewis expects about 60 relatives to attend Carbone\u2019s funeral on Saturday at a Catholic church in Brooklyn. Burial with full military honors will be in the Queens cemetery plot where Carbone\u2019s parents are buried. Like many parents of WWII servicemen who were listed as missing in action, the Carbones reserved a gravesite for their son in the family plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy grandmother went to her grave believing he was alive,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":84578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":25,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2331],"class_list":["post-77217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"ODVGZ7Q7IFFX3HOT3TDILOWS5M","arc_canonical_url":"\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial - Military Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Military Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris Carola, The Associated Press\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris Carola, The Associated Press\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t    \"@context\": \"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\n\t    \"@graph\": [\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Article\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#article\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"author\": {\n\t                \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"headline\": \"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00\",\n\t            \"mainEntityOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"wordCount\": 522,\n\t            \"commentCount\": 0,\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"articleSection\": [\n\t                \"Veterans\"\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"CommentAction\",\n\t                    \"name\": \"Comment\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#respond\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial - Military Times\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#website\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"primaryImageOfPage\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#primaryimage\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00\",\n\t            \"description\": \"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.\",\n\t            \"breadcrumb\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#breadcrumb\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ReadAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#primaryimage\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg\",\n\t            \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/29\\\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\\\/#breadcrumb\",\n\t            \"itemListElement\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 1,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Home\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"home\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 2,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Veterans\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/veterans\\\/\",\n\t                    \"ad_zone\": \"veterans\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 3,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial\"\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#website\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Military Times\",\n\t            \"description\": \"Independent News About Your Military | Military Times\",\n\t            \"publisher\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#organization\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"SearchAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"EntryPoint\",\n\t                        \"urlTemplate\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"\n\t                    },\n\t                    \"query-input\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"PropertyValueSpecification\",\n\t                        \"valueRequired\": true,\n\t                        \"valueName\": \"search_term_string\"\n\t                    }\n\t                }\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#organization\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Military Times\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/\",\n\t            \"logo\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/military-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/military-logo-white.png\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"Military Times\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"\n\t            }\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1\",\n\t            \"name\": \"migration\",\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"migration\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\\\/\\\/one.sightlinemg.com\\\/militarytimes\\\/author\\\/migration\\\/\"\n\t        }\n\t    ]\n\t}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial - Military Times","description":"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial","og_description":"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.","og_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/","og_site_name":"Military Times","article_published_time":"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00","author":"Chris Carola, The Associated Press","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chris Carola, The Associated Press","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/"},"author":{"name":"migration","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1"},"headline":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial","datePublished":"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/"},"wordCount":522,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg","articleSection":["Veterans"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/","name":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial - Military Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg","datePublished":"2017-09-29T18:36:14+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-08T03:33:56+00:00","description":"Nancy Lewis never knew the uncle everyone called Joey, but the stories her grandmother would tell of the son, Marine Corps Pvt. Joseph Carbone, who didn\u2019t return from World War II made it seem like he was still around. \u201cShe made him so real for us,\u201d Lewis said.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/2017\/09\/29\/remains-of-wwii-marine-from-nyc-being-returned-for-burial\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/","ad_zone":"home"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Veterans","item":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/veterans\/","ad_zone":"veterans"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Remains of WWII Marine from NYC being returned for burial"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#website","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/","name":"Military Times","description":"Independent News About Your Military | Military Times","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#organization","name":"Military Times","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/military-logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/military-logo-white.png","caption":"Military Times"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/#\/schema\/person\/cc76c831bb37a926738c8391fca7a3b1","name":"migration","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=gcf4cb6ee0ec29e49e7a963234e4340ec","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9e8d47be443ce94ce7fc357677b5f9c70235bb1f59e7267a102a74af58c04f59?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"migration"},"url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/author\/migration\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Military Times","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes","push-errors":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP17272514161261.jpg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77219,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77217\/revisions\/77219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77217"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=77217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}