Although I can't give a reference, I have read it was 20%.
Micheal Landon.
Soldiers found bodies piled up when they liberated the extermination camps.
World War I soldiers can be found in the Time Life books. There are also some on Youtube.
Thousands of Allied soldiers died on D-Day and many were not identified or found at the time. Later searches found many bodies and these soldiers are now buried in huge Allied cemeteries all over Normandy.
75 percent
American soldiers who liberated extermination camps were unaware of how horrible the Holocaust had been.
40.
Around 49%.
There are estimates of 2,500 US soldiers but no definite number has been determined. Even today, bodies are occasionally found there.
only thousands, as most were cremated.
The pollution found in Poland during World War 2 was from the crematoriums where the Nazis were burning the bodies of the Jews.
It was found in World War II. Soldiers were the first to be diagnosed.