Humans war against each other all the time, and throughout history hundreds of millions of people have died on the battlefield.
This begs the question, what happens to the bodies?
Like on the beaches of Normandy, thousands of people died. But the beaches, to my knowledge, aren’t filled with dead bones and stuff.
So where did they go? Is there a secret service that collects bodies?
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If the battle is protracted, without a winner, sometimes arrangements will be made for a temporarily truce so that both sides can collect their dead. This was done on the Western Front of WWI, where the sides fought in more or less the same exact space for weeks or months on end.
If one side or the other wins the battle, they will treat the bodies according to time and resources available and their feelings towards the dead. The bodies of your soldiers are often treated more carefully, and given individual burials or shipped back home to be interred. The bodies of enemy troops might be buried in a mass grave. Potentially, arrangements might be made to return the bodies to the enemy, but that depends on whether an agreement can be made.
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