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Remains of Illinois soldier who died during WWII at Japanese POW camp identified, military says
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 buried on Oct. 6 at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, the agency said. His niece, Rosemary Dillon of Chicago, said she was a young child when Jerele left for his military service but she reme

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