Remains of Nebraska soldier who disappeared in Germany in WWII are finally coming home
Steve Liewer Apr 11, 2021 Updated Apr 12, 2021
Harry and Daisy Reab must have felt grateful as they prepared Thanksgiving Day dinner at their home in rural Giltner, Nebraska, back in 1944.
True, their son and only child, Pvt. Lyle Reab, was far from home, serving with the First Army in Europe during World War II. But he had been blessed to take part in the joyous liberation of Paris a few weeks earlier — and Adolf Hitler’s armies, though stubborn, had been yielding ground to the Allies on the western and eastern fronts.
Then came the telegram.
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