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World War II souvenir to be repatriated after 2011 phone call

Historian vowed to SD fighter pilot that he would return wallet of Japanese soldier

by Jonathan Ellis of The Dakota Scout
March 18, 2023
in State News, Featured, News
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South Dakota historian John Mollison will be traveling to return the wallet of a World War II veteran from Japan. Dakota Scout photo

South Dakota historian John Mollison will be traveling to return the wallet of a World War II veteran from Japan. Dakota Scout photo

When John Mollison answered a phone call in 2011, a familiar voice was on the other end. Mollison, a Sioux Falls historian and artist who has specialized in drawing the warplanes of combat veterans, had met Claude Hone three years earlier. He’d drawn the Corsair fighter Hone flew as a Marine combat pilot during World […]

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