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World War II Honoree

Killed in World War II

Peter Wales Hansen

Hometown

Stiles, Wisconsin

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

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Activity During WWII

He was captured by the Japanese on Wake Island where he was working for the Morrison-Knudsen Company building an airfield. He was a civilian contractor and served three and a half years as a prisoner of war. On March 21, 1945, he died in a prisoner of war camp in Fukuoka, Japan.