Remains of Iowa soldier lost in World War II returned to Ames

August 2, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The remains of a central Iowa Army soldier are returning home after 75 years. Corporal Ralph Bennett, an Ames native, was listed as killed in action after disappearing in June of 1944 as his unit took an airfield from the Japanese in Myitkyina, Burma during World War Two. He was 22-years-old at the time and […]