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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 ...
Name Lifespan Notes Battle of Trafalgar: 21 October 1805 Spanish Navy Gaspar Costela Vasquez 1787–1892 Served on Santa Ana. [27]: 184 [28] [29] French Navy Emmanuel Louis Cartigny 1790–1892 Served on Redoutable. [27]: 346 British Royal Navy Joseph Sutherland 1789–1890 Served on HMS Beaulieu. [30] [31] Battle of Austerlitz: 2 December 1805
Operation Copper was carried out by the Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during World War II.The objective of the mission was to investigate the Japanese defences on Muschu Island, capture a Japanese officer for interrogation and discover the location of two naval guns on the island that covered the approaches to Wewak Harbour.
Child soldiers in World War II (1 C, 95 P) Chinese military personnel of World War II (3 C, 104 P) ... Pages in category "Military personnel of World War II"
American World War II flying ace [17] Aleksey Botyan: 1917–2020: 103: Soviet colonel, spy, partisan and intelligence officer [18] Aubrey J. Bourgeois: 1907–2011: 103: American Navy officer [19] Hugo Broch: 1922– 103: German World War II flying ace [20] Lady Martha Bruce: 1921–2023: 101: British prison governor, Women's Royal Army Corps ...
The earliest action for which a U.S. serviceman earned a World War II Medal of Honor was the attack on Pearl Harbor, for which 17 U.S. servicemen were awarded a Medal, although they did so "while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force" rather than "enemy" since the United States was neutral during the ...
Z Special Unit (/ z ɛ d /) was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia.Predominantly Australian, Z Special Unit was a specialist clandestine operation, direct action, long-range penetration, sabotage, and special reconnaissance unit that included British, Dutch, New Zealand, Timorese and Indonesian members ...
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, [1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/ d ə ˈ w aɪ. ər t /; [2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army.He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. [3]