La Center kid Herb March was 21 when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1939. He wasn’t much older — just 24 years old — when he died of malnutrition and disease in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines during World War II.
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Source: The Columbian
WWII veteran’s remains return to home to Clark County: ‘It was nothing less than completely amazing’
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