eli5, what happens to the dead bodies in a battlefield

Question

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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Answer 1

My father fought in the WWII battle of Okinawa. Over about three months, 90,000 Japanese soldiers and 140,000 Okinawan civilians were killed. Burial was in mass graves with bulldozers.