After 81 years, a Chicago-area soldier who died during World War II can be laid to rest in his home state.
Military scientists have officially identified the remains of Harry Jerele of west suburban Berkeley, who died of pneumonia at age 26 in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. He was accounted for last December, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday.
Jerele’s niece Rosemarie Dillon, 88, who lives in Batavia, is his oldest surviving relative. She was “shocked” to learn his remains had been identified.
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