Volunteers put faces to names of Americans in WWII cemetery OPIJNEN, Netherlands (AP) — Staff Sgt. Maurice Gosney was just a name carved on a white cross until a young Dutch historian went in search of the fallen American soldier’s face. Killed in an ambush near the German village of Sulzfeld on April 11, 1945, Gosney is one of more than 10,000 American servicemen and women buried or memorialized at the Netherlands American Cemetery in the southern Netherlands town of Margraten. A Dutch-based band of volunteers is now on a mission to put faces to all those names. It’s a way of bringing history alive and of expressing their enduring gratitude to the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands from five years of brutal Nazi occupation. Historian Sebastiaan Vonk’s Faces of Margraten project, founded six years ago, already has uncovered photos of some 7,500 of the war dead. They were due to be displayed next to graves in Margraten this week as Europe commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War IIin the continent. cont: https://www.wiproud.com/news/national/volunteers-put-faces-to-names-of-americans-in-wwii-cemetery/