WW2 soldier’s body returning home 73 years after battle
LOS ANGELES — Nearly three-quarters of a century after he was killed in the ferocious World War II battle chronicled in the 1977 film “A Bridge Too Far,” Staff Sgt. David Rosenkrantz is coming home to Los Angeles.
The U.S. Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Rosenkrantz’s body was recently recovered not far from where he died in battle in the Netherlands in 1944.
“It’s very fresh and exciting news,” Rosenkrantz’s nephew Phillip Rosenkrantz told The Associated Press, adding the family hopes to eventually have his uncle buried in Riverside National Cemetery, near the graves of four of his brothers who also served in the military.
“I think it’s only fitting that he go to rest with his brothers,” said Rosenkrantz, a professor emeritus at California Polytechnic University in Pomona.