The estimation of stature from length of long bones of the free limbs is often an important contribution to the identification of unknown human remains. The need for identification was realized, perliaps more keenly than ever before in the history of mankind, during the United States Repatriation Program. This program was established by an Act of Congress in 1944. It incladed the identification (when possible) of unknown war casualties and was assigned to the American Graves Registration Service under Quartermaster Corps. Identification Laboratories were established in suitable parts of the world and the aid of physical anthropologists was enlisted.Interest in stature estimation from long bones is not new but the number of actual investigations on the subject is relatively few. The most significant report in the last century was that by Rollet in 1888. He measured stature and lengths of the long bones of 50 male and 50 female French cadavers ranging in age from 24 to 99 years and presented all pertinent data including not only the methods of measurement but also the individual measurements and the resultant tables for stature estimation. Stature measurements were taken "generally in the week which followed death" with the cadaver lying on a graduated stretcher. The soft parts were then dissected away

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