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Mrs. Fern Sumpter Winbush, principal director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, lays a wreath at the Spirit of the Elbe plaque at Arlington National Cemetery, April 25, to commemorate the 71st Anniversary of the Meeting on the Elbe of Soviet and American troops in 1945. This was the 22nd annual ceremony sponsored by the Russian Embassy and the U.S. and Russian veterans group. Sumpter Winbush was accompanied by Dr. James Connell, Jr., acting executive secretary of the U.S. side of U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs and Mr. Maxim Nikolayevich Alexeyev, chief of the Washington office of the Russian side of USRJC. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus, DPAA PAO.)
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Mrs. Fern Sumpter Winbush, principal director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, lays a wreath at the Spirit of the Elbe plaque at Arlington National Cemetery, April 25, to commemorate the 71st Anniversary of the Meeting on the Elbe of Soviet and American troops in 1945. This was the 22nd annual ceremony sponsored by the Russian Embassy and the U.S. and Russian veterans group. Sumpter Winbush was accompanied by Dr. James Connell, Jr., acting executive secretary of the U.S. side of U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs and Mr. Maxim Nikolayevich Alexeyev, chief of the Washington office of the Russian side of USRJC. (Photos by Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus, DPAA PAO.)
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| April 27, 2016
Spirit of the Elbe ceremony
By Staff Sgt. Kristen Duus
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