Lt. Thomas Ruth’s body was exhumed from the Manila American Cemetery in 2013, and his remains were positively identified last year.
ASHBURN, Va. — More than 80 years after an American fighter pilot was killed in the Pacific during World War II, he will receive a proper burial in his hometown of Jackson, Minnesota.
One of his nephews, Thomas Ruth, lives in Loudoun County and will be at the ceremony to honor the relative he only recently got to know. Ruth grew up in a military family. Spending some time in the Navy himself. His father and
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