On October 2nd 1944, Lt Howard Hensleigh, of the 3rd Battalion of the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was involved in two successive ambushes, during which he shot and killed a German non commissioned officer. When he searched the killed German's body, Hensleigh found the soldiers wedding photo, some other photos and a diary. He kept the photos in his photo album until 2012, when the identity of the killed German was discovered. Hensleigh was then able to send the photos back to Germany 68 years after he had shot their original owner.