The family of SS Sturmann Joseph Torhan were informed in 1944 that Torhan had been killed in action by artillery fire in Normandy in June 1944. His body had been buried by German troops in Maisoncelle sur Ajon. However, when his family enquired about the location of his grave after the war, it was nowhere to be found.
After some research in the exhumation reports of the Maisoncelle area, it was possible to determine that Torhan's body had actually been recovered shortly after the war, but that it had been reburied under a false name in the German cemetery at St Désir de Lisieux.
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Normandy invasion - june 6th 1944 - Operation Overlord - Volksbund - War Graves Commission - killed in action - missing in action - shrapnel - artillery fragmentation - Caen - CWGC - VDK - Falaise gap - St Lô - World War II - WWII - graves registrations - mistaken identity - deadly typo - forensic - identification tag - ID tag - DNA - excavation - eno strobel strubel - search for missing bodies - erkennungsmarke - unknown soldier - military cemetery - genealogy research - German army - buried under a false identity - mistaken identity - ss camouflage - 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg - 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich - Hitlerjugend Division - uniform - totenkopf - soldier - Joseph Tarhan - cold case resolution - cold case solving
Негізгі бет Buried under a mistaken identity in Normandy since 1944 - The story of missing SS Sturmmann Torhan
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