Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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WELLSBURG, W.Va. - Pvt. Earl E. Loughner of the 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion survived the Bataan Death March and three years as a prisoner of war, forced into labor on docks of Kobe, Japan. He never quite recovered from the malnutrition he suffered in those prison camps, dying in 1956 from a heart attack when his daughter was 7 years old. On Tuesday, Peggie Loughner Fisher traveled from Grove City, Pa., to the American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Museum, Education, and Research Center here to witness Mitsubishi Materials Corp. officially apologize for their use of POWs as slave labor during World War II.