By putting their work together, they succeed in reconstructing a story.
Born in 1916, engaged in the US Army but of Canadian nationality, Private Gordon was sent to the front after the Normandy landings.
He joined the reconnaissance company on August 13, 1944, in command of an armored vehicle.
"A German shot hit the tank and the vehicle caught fire ...
"The last survivor tells us that the two occupants of the turret were dead on the spot.
The driver was able to extricate himself and died two days later. "
Buried at first in an American cemetery, the gravediggers realized during an exhumation that he was wrapped in a jacket of the 3rd Reich.
They then transferred him to a German cemetery, burial number 8209 having no identity plate.
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