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Ohio: Slain soldiers son to get lost medal, answers. John Trinca couldnt remember the name of the soldier who died right next to him minutes after they met during World War II, and all Thomas Bateman Jr. knew of his fathers death was that it happened in 1945 in the Philippines. The two will meet for the first time Sunday thanks largely to Tom McAvoy, who made good on a quest to return a lost war medal he found as a child in Chicago that only had the recipients engraved name as a clue: Thomas Bateman. This year — 69 years after a bullet from a Japanese machine gun killed Pvt. Thomas Bateman — their stories intersected for the first time... Would you like to post a comment in honor of a loved one who served in the military? bit.ly/1zJ21Se
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:43:52 +0000

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