USS Perch Survivor to Visit Japan This Year

From the Sept. 9, 2014, KTLO Radio (Arkansas).

Robert Lents, 93, has been invited by the government of Japan to visit that country as part of the Japanese/POW Friendship Program which aims at reconciliation.

Mr. Lents is one of the 62 crew members of the submarine USS Perch, which was scuttled after engaging the Japanese on 3 March 1942, captured and who then spent nearly 1300 days a s prisoners of war.

He says he plans to visit Japan in 2015.

--GreGen