WWII Veterans, Sgt. Silas Legrow at Little Rock Air Force Base, (veteran of Bataan North March of WWII), September 2, 1964 [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1964.

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WWII Veterans, Sgt. Silas Legrow at Little Rock Air Force Base, (veteran of Bataan North March of WWII), September 2, 1964 [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1964.

Negative taken for September 9, 1964, Arkansas Gazette article "A Chicago Reunion for Those Who Survived Hell," B1:2. Chief Master Sergeant Silas G. Legrow of the United States Air Force, stationed at the Little Rock Air Force Base, Pulaski County, Arkansas, is a Japanese ex-prisoner of war and survived the Bataan "Death March."

1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

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