*IN MEMORIAM*

Bud Kirchhoff passed away June 10, 2015 at the age of 96. Click here for his obituary from the Coeur d’Alene Press.

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89-year-old Herbert “Bud” Kirchhoff of Couer d’Alene, ID appears on episode #65 of Hometown Heroes, airing March 7, 2009. A native of Peoria, IL, Kirchhoff became a tank commander with the 192nd Tank Battalion in the Philippines at the outset of World War II. He survived the Bataan Death March, and the rest of WWII as a prisoner of the Japanese, losing more than 100 pounds in captivity.

Bud Kirchhoff during World War II.

Click here for Bud’s page at BataanProject.com