This month, an archeological team is excavating a site in Belgium in hopes of recovering the remains of American airmen whose bomber went missing during the Battle of the Bulge. Their efforts highlight a massive US military mission that is becoming increasingly important as time goes by.
07/26/2012 - The last time American soldiers were here, they were fighting for their lives during one of the fiercest battles of the World War II, the Battle of the Bulge. Nearly 70 years later, the only immediate evidence of this, tucked into a hillside in Belgium's densely wooded Ardennes region, is a crater about the size of a backyard pool.
This was long thought to be the location where a twin-engine B-26 Marauder bomber called Bank Nite Betty crashed during the month-long battle to halt Germany's last major offensive of the war. But new information has led the US military to re-examine this assumption, and now the Americans are back. Instead of tanks and bombers, though, they're armed with metal detectors, shovels and sifting screens, searching for the remains of soldiers who didn't return home. read more>>>
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