Harry Richard Landis

Harry Richard Landis was one of two surviving U.S. veterans of the First World War. He died on Feb. 4, 2008 at the age of 108. Landis trained as a recruit 60 days before the war ended. He was never sent to Europe.

Fast Facts:

1. Landis enlisted in the Army in 1918
2. The last known surviving veteran of the war is now Frank Buckles, 107
3. Born in 1899 in Marion County, Mo.
4. He got out of the Army when the war ended

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