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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan

US buries unknown WWI soldier in France, 100 years after his death

Graves of US WWI soldiers at the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, France. © Warrick Page/American Battle Monuments Commission

More than a century after he was killed fighting in World War I, an unidentified American soldier will be reburied on Wednesday at a military cemetery in northern France. Thousands of US servicemen who died in the conflict remain missing, but finding them is no easy task.

"There was a certain model of trench knife. There was American ammunition. There was a handle from an American canteen cup. A gas mask. Buttons off an American uniform."

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