SASEBO, Japan (May 30, 2017) Members of the Navy League, Kyushu Retired Military Association and Sasebo community leaders laid wreaths and flowers at the Soto Dam memorial May 30, 2017. The annual memorial ceremony is held for the 53 American POWS and 14 Japanese who died building Soto Dam during World War II. Sasebo erected the memorial for both American and Japanese dead in 1956.

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