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"COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — The gray wall of the missing soars high over Omaha
Beach, etched with names of lost World War II troops and the melancholy mystery
of "comrades in arms whose resting place is known only to God."
"Along the wall, set in the American cemetery here on the Normandy cliffs,
bronze rosettes mark soldiers whose remains have been found in the 65 years
since the D-Day invasion. But for the vast number of missing Americans from the
war — almost 73,500 — there are few rosettes and thousands of unanswered
questions.
"With time running out to crack the case of the missing soldiers, the United
States fields teams of military researchers to search for the remains of World
War II troops, but it has limited resources. So much of the detective work has
fallen to amateur sleuths in Belgium, France and Germany who hunt for makeshift
graves and the ghosts of war. Their tools are Google satellite photos,
old-fashioned shoe-leather investigation and high-powered metal scanners that
can detect a helmet 20 feet deep."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/world/europe/05france.html?_r=1&ref=world
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