"The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black..." Topic

… American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II"

"The bodies of eleven American soldiers were found in a field in Belgium during the last winter of World War II. Their eyes had been gouged out while they were still alive, they had tire tracks from being run over by armored cars. The bullet wounds on their bodies were placed to cause suffering and not to kill. The bodies also showed stab wounds, wounds caused by being hit with rifle butts, severed fingers, broken bones, and fractured skulls.

The soldiers had been members of the 333rd Field Army Battalion. They were known for their accurate aim in battle. Their story has been ignored by the US for seventy years.

In 1949, the US Senate released an official report that listed a dozen other massacres similar to the Wereth 11, as they became known, but didn't feel the need to mention the eleven men found in that Belgian field…"
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There was a special on the history channel about the unit and the massacre.

And several of them were from Mississippi, my home state. A friend of mine has been researching them for several years to try and identify living relatives.

Jim