Missing in action
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Missing in action is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been
Grave of an unknown British combatant, killed in 1943 during the Battle of Leros. Because his identity is unknown, he is missing in action.
Grave of 12 unknown British and/or Commonwealth soldiers. Buried in Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong.
The Garden of the Missing in Action in the National Military and Police Cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Grave of an unknown American combatant in Oise-Aisne Cemetery. Killed in 1917
Battle of Leros
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The Battle of Leros took place on the Greek island of Leros between the Allies and invading forces of Nazi Germany. Regarded as the central event of the Dodecanese campaign of the Second World War, th
Missing in action
…Grave of an unknown British combatant, killed in 1943 during the Battle of Leros. Because his identity is unknown, he is missing in action. Grave of 12 unknown British and/or Commonwealth soldiers. Buried in Stanley Military Cemetery…
German Fallschirmjäger paratroopers prepare to be flown to Leros
A Marinefährprahm (MFP) in 1942
Paratroopers board a Junkers Ju 52 bound for Leros
Wreck of a Junkers Ju 52 shot down over Leros on 13 November and salvaged by the Hellenic Air Force in 2003. Now at the Hellenic Air Force Museum