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the Navy disinterred burials from the cemetery and subsequently reinterred them at Cypress Hills National Cemetery, also in Brooklyn. This research effort was conducted by the Navy to address the issue of military burials that are not documented as having been removed from the Naval Hospital Cemetery during the 1926 disinterment action. During the Navy's research on the cemetery, discrepancies regarding the number of burials and disinterments at the cemetery, as well as missing, incomplete, and contradictory information, were frequently encountered. These research obstacles have made it impossible for the Navy to provide definitive answers to the stated research goals. However, despite these challenges, a great deal of information was collected, including data on those Sailors, Marines, and members of their families who may not have been disinterred. The discrepancy between the number of documented burials and the number of documented disinterments is one of the primary issues discussed in this report. These burials are referred to as burials not documented as removed. Although no documentation on the removal of these burials was found, it is not clear that they all remain in the Naval Hospital Cemetery. It is likely that some were removed without being documented and that others have deteriorated over the years and/or bee