Frank Buckles
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title:
Frank Buckles
text:
Frank Woodruff Buckles was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe. During World War II, then aged 40, he was captured by Japanese forces while working in the shipping business, and spent three years in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner. After the war, Buckles married in San Francis
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description:
United States Army soldier and supercentenarian
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
date created:
2007-02-24T18:52:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:16:56Z
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