2023-11-26 00:52:04
The United States has been able to identify the remains of a commander who was killed in a tank in Germany in 1944.
The lieutenant identified as Gene F. Walker was fighting against Nazi forces when his tank was hit by an anti-tank strike near the German-Belgian border, BBC News reports.
“The strike caused a fire which would have killed Mr. Walker instantly,” indicates the American agency MIA Accounting, which managed to identify the soldier. Surviving soldiers were unable to remove his body from the rubble due to clashes around the tank.”
After the war, the American unit responsible for caring for the deceased was unable to obtain information regarding the deaths of compatriots in the region.
Gene F. Walker was reportedly buried at the American Military Cemetery in Hamburg, Belgium in December 1944.
It was only in 2021 that his remains were exhumed and sent to MIA Accounting for analysis.
The agency was later able to identify Trooper Walker.
Since 1973, she has been able to identify 1,543 Americans who were missing after World War II.
Some 72,000 American soldiers who fought in that war have never been accounted for, according to government data.
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