Italy and the United States have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at enhancing search operations for American military personnel who went missing during World War II and have yet to be found.
According to Reuters, citing an official statement, the agreement was signed between Italy’s Ministry of Culture and the US agency responsible for locating missing military personnel. Under the new agreement, search procedures will be improved while also ensuring the protection of archaeological sites located within the search areas.
Official data states that approximately 72,000 American soldiers who died during World War II remain unidentified worldwide. Since search efforts resumed in the 1970s, nearly one thousand sets of remains have been found and identified, then returned to their families.
It is worth noting that on April 24, the exhumation of Polish soldiers’ remains who died in 1945 began in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, at the site of the former village of Puzhnyky. The issue of exhumations has long been a contentious topic in relations between Ukraine and Poland.
