Survivor of Bataan Death March Tenney invited to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of Lester Tenney, a survivor of the Bataan Death March during World War II and a professor emeritus at Arizona State University. In the first invitation to former prisoners of war from the United States by the Japanese government to visit Japan, Tenney and other former POWs are scheduled to do so Sept. 12, 2010.

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