""an intense period of combat""
""No service member is left behind," said George Pontes, director of Weymouth Veterans Services. "The Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission went to great lengt"
Private Alfred Thomas Langevin enlisted in 1942 while his daughter Mary was a toddler. He served in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division and was reported missing on Nov. 6, 1944 in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest. The Hürtgen Forest battle ran from September to December 1944 and produced tens of thousands of casualties. The circumstances of Langevin’s disappearance and death remain unknown. Remains recovered in May 1946 were designated X-2756 and declared unidentifiable in 1949. Exhumed in June 2021, the remains were identified through anthropological analysis, circumstantial evidence, and mitochondrial and autosomal DNA, with a DNA match confirmed on July 30, 2025 using DNA from his nephew Patrick Thompson. A rosette will be placed beside his name at the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery in Margarten.
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