And how many of them return in sealed zinc coffins!
The war that had sent home 15,000 zinc coffins had also killed off a lot of illusions.
One explanation is that a body packed in a zinc coffin and wooden crate for transport weighs 200 kilos, or 440 pounds.
When boys were killed, they were sent home in sealed zinc coffins.
In the first war, public protest was galvanized by televised images of wooden boxes bearing zinc coffins and mothers weeping over the bodies of their sons.
A father's remains are brought home in a zinc coffin, he died of pneumonia.
At a later time the Communist authorities removed the zinc coffin from Vrana and moved it to a secret location, which remains unknown to this day.
In the black tulip's cargo bay lay a zinc coffin.
That means that a zinc coffin is required, at enormous expense.
They were given no translation, no help from the consular services and had to meet the cost of over GBP 3000 for a zinc coffin alone.