DVIDS – News – Remains of World War II Soldier, Plymouth, Indiana, native, to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery

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FT KNOX, Ky.– The remainsof Army Pvt David S. Whipple, eliminated throughout World War II, will certainly be interredNov 3 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,Virginia Everly-Wheatley Funerals and Cremation, Alexandria, Virginia, will certainly carry out graveside solutions coming before the interment.

A native of Plymouth, Indiana, Whipple was a participant of the 27th Materiel Squadron, 20th Air Base Group, when Japanese pressures got into the Philippine Islands in December 1941. Intense dealing with proceeded up until the abandonment of the Bataan peninsula April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island May 6, 1942.

Thousands of UNITED STATE and Filipino solution participants, consisting of Whipple, were caught and interned at POW camps after united state pressures in Bataan dropped to theJapanese The guys were subjected to the 65- mile Bataan Death March, …