LAWTON, Okla. (KFOR) - A 101-year-old WWII Veteran has donated his military memorabilia to the Ft. Sill Field Artillery Museum, according to Ft. Sill Museum officials. “Our facility is the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Training Support Facility. We have three facilities here at Fort Sill—the Field Artillery Museum, Fort Sill Museum and the Air Defense Artillery Training Support Facility,” said Correy Twilley ADA Training Support Facility Curator. “Ours is a new training concept that uses history to develop our Soldiers, weapons and tactics.” “We are ultimately a training facility and we have an obligation to teach our young Advanced Individual Training students and Officer Candidates Students that attend these courses about this part of our history so they can learn about the past in the hopes that we are not doomed to repeat it,” Twilley said, “We are grateful for this unique and well-preserved piece of Mr. Chandler’s history. With this donation, he is helping to educate the future generations of service members and their families who walk through these halls. So much of WWII history has been lost and Mr. Chandler and his family has helped us preserve this piece in time to teach those future generations about his contributions to our nation’s heritage.” In January of 1941, Leland D. Chandler enlisted in the Army at 18 years old, served during WWII and was stationed at the Corregidor Islands in the Philippines with the 60th Coast Artillery.  WWII Veteran Leland Chandler donates items to Ft. Sill Museum, Image courtesy KFOR Chandler, a former prisoner of War captured by Japanese forces in World War II donated his service dress uniform, awards, decorations, military documents, and artifacts to the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Training Support Facility for display ensuring his story lives on. “There were 400 of us that went into that Japanese prison camp and when we were freed, only 53 of us came out,” Chandler recalled as his children unveiled his service uniform and awards during the recent donation to the Fort Sill Museum. According to Museum officials, Chandler credits his long life to a the VA and family support. Thank you for your service Leland D. Chandler.