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WWII Army Soldier Who Died in a Japanese Prison Camp Will Return Home Next Spring
Delmont Johnston, who died in a Japanese POW camp in 1942, was identified through forensic analysis and will be buried in Augusta, Maine next spring.
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A Mainer who died in a Japanese prison camp will return home next spring
A Monmouth man who died during World War II after the Imperial Japanese Army captured the Philippines will finally return home next spring. U.S. Army Cpl. Delmont Johnston, 21, was serving with the 16th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group, in late 1941 when the Japanese army invaded the Philippines, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Johnston was among the U.S. and Filipino soldiers captured after the surrender of the B…
·Bangor, United States
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