Canadien combattant pour les États-Unis, mort en France et enterré avec les Allemands: un mystère de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale

Une histoire absolument fascinante qui nous rappelle le sort de nombreux soldats pendant une guerre. Tous les hommes morts au combat ne reviennent pas à la maison et on perd parfois la trace de certains d'entre eux. Le corps de Lawrence S. Gordon n'a été retrouvé que 70 ans après sa mort...

 "The seven-decade-long mystery of a Saskatchewan-born Second World War soldier who was mistakenly buried with Nazi soldiers appears to have been solved.

 DNA testing of the remains indicate they are indeed those of Lawrence S. Gordon of Eastend, Sask., who was a private first class in the U.S. Army. He was missing and presumed dead after a battle in France in 1944.

After his armoured vehicle was destroyed by a German shell, his body was never found.

 His family wrote repeatedly to the U.S. government seeking more information, but was frustrated every time.

 Family members, aided by historians and well-wishers, never gave up. They eventually tracked his suspected remains to a cemetery in Normandy, France, that's administered by the German government.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/remains-of-lawrence-s-gordon-missing-sask-soldier-id-d-1.2549480