Black Soldiers Buried White Soldiers They Couldn't Sit With The Most Important WWII Story Nobody Knows - In November 1944, the 960th Quartermaster Service Company—260 African American soldiers—arrived in Margraten, a Dutch village in South Limburg that had just been liberated. Tasked by the U.S. Ninth Army to establish the Netherlands American Cemetery, these soldiers faced one of World War II's most grueling and psychologically traumatic missions: burying approximately 20,000 American soldiers