WWII Veteran Peter Bang's burial at Veterans Cemetery

Peter Bang, one of five siblings who served in WWII, died Sept. 11. Two of his brothers died in the war and he was sent home. He was buried Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake with full honors.

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Tue., Sept. 20, 2016

World War II veteran Peter D. Bang poses for a photo at his home on Thursday, May 12, 2016, in Spokane Valley, Wash. Five siblings in the Bang family from Spokane served in World War II. Two were killed.

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Pete Bang, who was an Army private in World War II serving in India and Burma driving trucks to supply troops fighting the Japanese in China. He worked as a mechanic after the war and owned his own shop, Bang Auto Clinic. He died Sept. 11, 2016.

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Peter Bang’s brother, Sidnie Bang. He was an Army corporal in a tanker battalion who was wounded in action three times and was killed on the front lines in Luxembourg in 1945.

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Peter Bang’s brother, John Bang. He served in the Navy on the USS Carter Hall in the South Pacific. After World War II, he earned an engineering degree from Washington State College on the GI Bill and worked at Boeing for 31 years. He died in 2005.

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Peter Bang’s brother, Melvin Bang. He served as an Army corporal who filed saws for troops building roads in the Philippines, where he died from disease in 1945

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Peter Bang’s sister, Irene Bang. She served as a Navy radio operator in California during World War II and later became a pharmacist. She died in 2011.

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Peter Bang’s sister, Pearl Bang, died in July 1945, when she was 13 as a result of injuries she sustained when a swing she was on near the family’s home collapsed. A piece of the swing ruptured her stomach.

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Sarah and Martin Bang, parents five children who served in World War II, including Sidnie Bang and Melvin Bang, who died in the conflict.

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Pete Bang (left) and Ray Arnot meet for lunch in 2004. The two had lunch together every Friday since 1952.

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Christie Strozyk holds a picture of her father, Peter Bang, that ran in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on Veterans Day in 1955.
Staff Sgt. Bennett Danelo with the Washington Army National Guard presents Christi Strozyk, daughter of World War II veteran Peter Bang, with an American flag Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery. Bang, one of five siblings who served in World War II, died Sept. 11, 2016. Two of his brothers died in the war and he was sent home.

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Fairchild Air Force Base Honor Guard Airman 1st Class Sable McCampbell, left, and Washington Army National Guard Spc. Daniel Corser fold the American flag before the funeral of World War II veteran Peter Bang on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery. Bang, one of five siblings who served in WWII, died Sept. 11. Two of his brothers died in the war and he was sent home.

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