Harry Landis, one of last World War I vets in the U.S., dies at age 108

Thursday, February 7, 2008

TAMPA, Fla. -- Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108.

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