Remains of an Illinois soldier who died during WWII at a Japanese POW camp identified, military says

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Remains of an Illinois soldier who died during WWII at a Japanese POW camp identified, military says

ELWOOD, Ill. — Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry Jerele of Berkeley, Illinois, were identified in December, about 81 years after he died of pneumonia at the Cabanatuan POW camp, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday. Jerele, who was 26 when he died in December 1942, will be bur…