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In this Dec. 7, 2015 file photo, Frank Levingston Jr., of Lake Charles, La., is greeted by visitors following a wreath laying ceremony to mark the anniversary of Pearl Harbor at the World War II Memorial in Washington. Levingston, a 110-year-old veteran who served in World War II died on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
Thursday, May 5, 2016 | 1:15 p.m.
NEW ORLEANS — A 110-year-old Louisiana man who served in World War II has died.
Local television station KPLC-TV in Lake Charles reported that Frank Levingston died Tuesday.
Multiple media outlets described him as the country's oldest World War II veteran but that could not be independently confirmed.
Levingston was born Nov. 13, 1905 and grew up in northern Louisiana.
ABC News reported that he enlisted in the army on Oct. 6, 1942, less than a year after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and launched the U.S. into the war raging in Europe and the Pacific.
Levingston's nephew Lee Levingston told ABC News that his uncle joined the military because he wanted to contribute to his country.
Levingston's funeral is scheduled to be held next Tuesday in his hometown of Cotton Valley.
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