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March 17, 1962

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a reporter at large

THE STRAGGLERS: EVEN IF IT TAKES A HUNDRED YEARS

E. J. Kahn

REPORTER AT LARGE about Japanese soldiers, sailors & civilian employees of the armed forces who were outside Japan on V-J Day, and about the stragglers who…