‘It’s a question OF HONOUR’
An estimated 27,500 American servicemen from the Second World War are missing in the Mediterranean, and the bodies of 8,000 are believed to be recoverable, Agence France-Presse says. “It’s a question of honour for the American armed forces: you never leave someone on the battlefield. It’s a promise we keep, even today, 75 years later,” Simon Hankinson, the U.S. consul general in Marseille, told AFP. Just off the coast of Corsica, French divers are assisting a U.S. team, combing through the wreckage of a P-47 Thunderbolt.