LINCOLN, Neb. ( Nebraska Today ) - In a field west of Paris, France, a group of 17, including graduate students, professors and alumni from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, meticulously worked to find those who went missing in World War II.

Bill Belcher, associate professor of anthropology, led the mission to France in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. Having previously worked for the Department of Defense as a forensic anthropologist for 21 years, Belcher now trains future forensic anthropologists to continue this work. There are still an estimated 26,000 missing but recoverable from World War II.

“One of the things I try to instill in my students is that one of the worst things that can hap

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