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None of them ever made it home.

Among them was Staff Sergeant Robert Mercer’s unit—eighteen men who disappeared three miles from Soviet lines.

The official report listed them as killed in action during heavy combat.

The Army sent letters to eighteen families, held memorial services, and closed the file.

The men were honored as heroes who gave their lives for freedom.

But fifty years later, when Lieutenant Dylan Mercer was overseeing a construction project at Fort Campbell training grounds, a bulldozer broke through a hidden concrete structure that had been buried beneath Kentucky soil since 1947.

What he discovered inside would force him to uncover a conspiracy that reached far beyond his grandfather’s unit—a systematic cover-up involving all those vanished soldiers.

And the truth about why they never came home.