World War II souvenir to be repatriated

Historian vowed to S.D. fighter pilot that he would return wallet of Japanese soldier

When John Mollison answered a phone call in 2011, a familiar voice was on the other end.

Mollison, a Sioux Falls historian and artist who has specialized in drawing the warplanes of combat veterans, had met Claude Hone three years earlier. He’d drawn the Corsair fighter Hone flew as a Marine combat pilot during World War II.

Normally, Hone exhibited a “bi…