Hi everyone!
I've been doing some research on my family tree. One night I was talking to my husband's grandmother and she, in passing, mentioned when one of her cousins was brought back home from over seas after having been killed during WWII. All she could remember was that the honor guard was so still that she just itched to pinch one of them to see if they were real. 
I did some research on ancestry.com and this is what I found on him:
Name: Barney G Sandretto
Residence State: Michigan
Report Date: 20 Feb 1943
Latest Report Date: 22 Feb 1943
Grade: Technician 5th Grade
Service Branch: Army
Arm or Service: Corps of Engineers
Arm or Service Code: Corps Of Engineers
Area Served: North African Theatre: Tunisia
Detaining Country: Germany
Camp: Lazarett Unstated
STATUS: Died as Prisoner of War, Not Above Cases
Report Source: Individual has been reported through sources considered official.
and:
Name: Barney G Sandretto
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Catholic
Cemetery Name: Michigan
Disposition: According to next of kin
Service Branch: Army
Rank: Technician Fifth Grade
Service Number: 36125930
I'm not too sure what all the codes mean...but I did try to look some of it up and I think it means that he died by unnatural causes as a POW.
Does anyone have any information they can share??