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Last to Die beatrice zinker upside down thinker ” Gil is a characterOn August 18, 1945 three days after Japan announced it would cease hostilities and surrender U. S. Army Air Forces Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. Just six days after his twentieth birthday, Tony Marchione died like so many before him in World War II quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy who was powerless to prevent his death. Though heartbreaking for his family, Marchione's death would have been no