U.S. World War Two veterans roll up sleeves for vaccination in Los Angeles


  • World
  • Saturday, 09 Jan 2021

(This January 8 story corrects Corre's status as hospital employee, instead of volunteer, in paragraph 3, and duration of Chester's captivity to 3-1/2 months, instead of 2-1/2 years in paragraph 11)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harry Corre, a U.S. Army veteran of World War Two who survived the Bataan Death March and a Japanese slave labor camp, rolled up his sleeve on Friday for his second coronavirus vaccine shot at a VA hospital in Los Angeles to help promote immunizations.

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