eli5, what happens to the dead bodies in a battlefield

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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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Bodies that could be collected would be buried or cremated in mass. If not they would have made a cenotaph for whoever they couldn’t find on the battlefield

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