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Two 107-year-old WWII vets to meet for first time
2013
Overview
\"If he's lived that long, he must be pretty lucky,\" [Hill] says. \"I'm looking forward to have a chance to meet him and hear his story.\" \"It's kind of a miracle to have anyone alive at 107,\" he says. \"But it's a real miracle to have two African American World War II veterans in the same state.\" [Richard Overton] volunteered for service in 1942. He joined the Army's 188th Aviation Engineer Battalion and was propelled into action in Guam and other spots around the Pacific. There are some things he remembers, like driving trucks full of soldiers and supplies and trees thick with Japanese snipers. A good marksman, he was assigned to escort officers -- a job he resented. \"I didn't want to be with the officers,\" he says. \"That's the first one they wanted to kill.\"
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USA Today, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc
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