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The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
The Army veteran from Redondo Beach is the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019), shown second-from-right in this 1942 photograph, was a World War II veteran and the last living participant of the Doolittle Raid. Lou Conter (1921–2024) – U.S. Navy. Last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. [62] [note 1] Warren "Red" Upton (1919-2024) U.S. Navy.
He served in the 91st Engineer Battalion in the United States Army in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II. [4] Brooks was a soldier in the Pacific Theatre from 1941 to 1945. [4] He reached the rank of private first class. [6] Brooks's unit, an engineering corps, was tasked mainly with building infrastructure. [4]
World War II veteran Jack Foy shakes the hand of the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, at last year's D-Day anniversary. - 1st Lt. Katherine Sibilla
A Milwaukee native, Pekrul signed up for the U.S. Army at Boys Tech High School (now Bradley Tech), according to an interview with the War Memorial Center that he gave as part of the Wisconsin ...
In the same piece, Marvel confirmed Woolson's claim to be the last surviving Union Army veteran and asserted that Woolson was the last genuine Civil War veteran on either side. However, Marvel did not present research establishing who, among the several other Confederate claims from the 1950s, some of which appear to be genuine, was the real ...
Longtime Framingham resident Arthur Butler, 100, has been a veteran so long that he predates Veterans day. 100-year-old World War II veteran alive longer than Veterans Day's been a federal holiday ...