Japanese, British vets revisit last naval battle of WWII

Japanese, British vets revisit last naval battle of WWII

PENANG, Malaysia - Japanese World War II veterans throw flowers into the sea off Malaysia's Penang Sept. 23, with British veterans looking on. Twenty-three British and six Japanese veterans reunited to revisit the last major naval battle of the war.

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