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Old 5th April 2015, 01:07
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: P-51 loss on 2 April 1945

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Originally Posted by ssg keay View Post
I think he was buried by Germans at Bensheim and it quite possibly was a Storch as I doubt the Americans would have buried him in Bensheim.
During the war, US forces, like other belligerents, created many cemeteries to bury their soldiers where they fell, or near by. These casualties were then reburied after the war, in the US or in some big war cemeteries depending of the family wishes.
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