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Let us hope so.DerAdlerIstGelandet said:My they never be forgotten.
Udet said:Since we have here a few who served in the military of their nations here goes a question that might appear foolish:
If I recall correctly, there is a tradition in some nations to keep soldiers, airmen or navy personnel who simply dissapeared during WWII still posted as Missing in Action.
Although there is a possibility a number of them did not die immediately in the day of their dissapearance, we could agree that after 60 years of the termination of WWII, the most likely of the scenarios for all those MIA´s is that they died, even if the exact dates of their deaths is known but to god.
Is this actually a tradition?
I recall a man saying once to me in London, "to us they are still on mission".
Are they expecting to locate their remains to then proceed to erase their names from the MIA lists?
How is it that this works exactly?
Udet said:FLYBOY:
Thanks for the response.
I had perceived this process of keeping MIA lists of men who served in WWII more as an oneiric approach, deeply emotive, rather than just the mere bureaucratic work of updating and adjusting lists of dissapeared men.