Normandy D-Day Question?

Question

i jut recently visited the normandy region in perticular omaha beach. it's a morbid question but i cant help it i'm really curious. after visiting the cemetary overlloking omaha i could help but wonder,how did they bury these guys? are they in their graves in the same hear they fell in? how did the military take care of their dead back then? again i have to say i ask this question with the greatest respect for the fallen.

Answer 1

The remains are buried at the cemetary in Normandy. They also had services back in the States. The medics took care of the dead. Their commanding officers were in charge of making sure they had their dog tags and the undaunting task of writing the letters home. They were processed, there was not a single MIA from D-Day. There were simply too many to send them home and in the time the logistics of that was unheard of. It took 3 weeks to get from New York to the UK. And there were no planes big enough to transport supplies across the Atlantic until the end of the war.

Answer 2

No problem with the question. I guess you were to Colleville / St Laurent-sur-Mer american cemetery. I think that after the battle, when the front was a bit forward, after the 8th or 9th of June 44, they gathered the corpses of the fallen, then some went to dig graves for each one. I guess the first tombs were made with wood crosses.

Right that some corpses went back to Great Britain and United States during the month of June 1944 .. officers I guess.

The cemetary of Coleville itself was financed and realised after the end of the war (1956).

It might have taken a long time to recognise the name of each body, and put a name on each cross or david star.

3000 american soldiers fell on Omaha beach on the very first d-day of Normandy landing (15 times more than Utah sector).

Answer 3

There are units called graves registration units who are responsible for recovery of those killed in action, identification and preservation of the remains.