johanness
09-10-2008, 05:51 PM
Der Spiegel, 09 / 10 / 2008
Experts with the United States military expend enormous resources to search for the bodies of missing soldiers. A team is currently at work in the northern Eifel Mountains region of western Germany, where tens of thousands of Americans died during World War II.
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One of the 78,000 MIA from World War II was a 20-year-old Texan, whose body was believed to have gone down in a wheat field in the Hürtgen forest. He flew for the 474th Fighter Group, which was based in Florennes, Belgium and provided air support for American ground forces. On Nov. 5, 1944, the Texan pilot was caught in German anti-aircraft fire and his plane burst into flames.
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She even knows for whom she is doing the work. The pilot's mother is still waiting, back in Texas. She has spent 64 years hoping for certainty about the fate of her son.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,577244,00.html
Experts with the United States military expend enormous resources to search for the bodies of missing soldiers. A team is currently at work in the northern Eifel Mountains region of western Germany, where tens of thousands of Americans died during World War II.
....
One of the 78,000 MIA from World War II was a 20-year-old Texan, whose body was believed to have gone down in a wheat field in the Hürtgen forest. He flew for the 474th Fighter Group, which was based in Florennes, Belgium and provided air support for American ground forces. On Nov. 5, 1944, the Texan pilot was caught in German anti-aircraft fire and his plane burst into flames.
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She even knows for whom she is doing the work. The pilot's mother is still waiting, back in Texas. She has spent 64 years hoping for certainty about the fate of her son.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,577244,00.html