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

When I was in Afghanistan we would collect our own, usually a helicopter would pick up the body so it would get an autopsy. Saw insurgents get a wheel barrow and collect a body of their own once.