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The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified decades later. Through the military's process of returning lost loved ones to their families, Svoboda said, she'd ...
One of the country’s last survivors of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Fernandez died Wednesday in Lodi, Calif. He was 100. His death brings the number of Pearl Harbor survivors to a little ...
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who were killed by friendly or hostile fire, suicide, or accidents (usually airplane crashes).
United States military veteran suicide [1] [2] is an ongoing phenomenon regarding the high rate of suicide among U.S. military veterans in comparison to the general civilian public. [3] A focus on preventing veteran suicide began in 1958 with the opening of the first suicide prevention center in the United States.
He died on USS Oklahoma after it was torpedoed and sank in the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor. The circumstances of his death have been described as heroic, [1] and he is the namesake of two U.S. Navy vessels. He was also awarded a Purple Heart. His remains were identified and returned home after seven decades and an intense inquiry.
Now 100 years old, the veteran is believed to be one of only 16 Pearl Harbor survivors who are still alive, Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor ...
Donald Stratton (July 14, 1922 – February 15, 2020) was an American veteran and memoirist of World War II who served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet. [1] [2] [3] He was in the port gun director of the ship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when an armor-piercing bomb set off the ship's forward ammunition magazine.