Nearly 80 years after being killed in action in Germany during World War II, a Denver man’s body will finally return home.
Defense agency historians and scientists have identified the body of Harold Schafer, a then 28-year-old man from Denver, who was killed in action in Germany during World War II. , 28, was hit by enemy machine gun fire and killed in action during a battle in Dillingen, Germany on Dec. 10, 1944, according to a Thursday news release from the
Schafer’s body was not initially recovered due to intense fighting against heavily reinforced German forces, the release stated. When American troops were ordered to retreat from the Dillingen area on Dec. 21, 1944, he was one of many casualties left behind. A defense agency historian studying the unaccounted-for American soldiers lost at Dillingen discovered in 2018 that Schafer could potentially be connected to human remains buried in the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, officials said Thursday.10th Mountain soldiers honor legendary WWII predecessors by skiing 24 miles in their tracks
Schafer’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in St. Avold, France, along with the others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
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