ARCADIA — The remains of a Kansas soldier killed in World War II will be laid to rest in his home state Wednesday.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says the remains of 33yearold Army Pfc. Leslie E. Shankles, of Arcadia, are being returned to his family for burial in Fort Scott with full military honors.
Shankles remains were accounted for July 12. He was killed by enemy fire in October 1944 in Hurtgen Forest in Germany.
The agency says a local German resident discovered remains in 1947. They could not be identified so they were buried as unknown in the Neuville Cemetery, now Ardennes American Cemetery, in Belgium.
Shankles’ name is recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands.
