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Remains ID’d of American airman shot down in WWII

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Staff Sgt. Edgar L. Mills, 25, of Tampa, Florida, was shot down July 18, 1944. His body was not recovered at the time, and Germany never reported him as a prisoner of war. In 1946, the American Graves Registration Command was tasked with recovering missing Americans. Investigators searched the crash site in Germany and discovered two other sets of remains.

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