A military casket that once repatriated the body of a fallen soldier to the U.S. from Germany during World War II has been returned to the soldier’s family in Whittier thanks to a Long Beach antique dealer and a good Samaritan with a knack for genealogy.
Pvt. Elio Nila was killed in action in Germany just shy of his 22nd birthday, his great nephew Harold Vaught of Whittier said.
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