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Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s remembrance ...
Pearl Harbor survivor Bob Fernandez, 100, says good night to friends after a night of dancing and singing at Whirlows in Stockton on Nov. 21. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons ...
Born in San Jose, California, Fernandez enlisted in the United States Navy in August 1941 at the age of 17, and was stationed at the Pearl Harbor base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. [1] He later stated that he was motivated to join the navy because he "wanted to see the world". [2]
Louis Anthony Conter (September 13, 1921 – April 1, 2024) was an American naval officer who was a lieutenant commander and naval aviator in the United States Navy.At the time of his death, he was the last living survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, has died at the age of 105. Upton died Wednesday at a Los Gatos, Calif., hospital. He had pneumonia, Kathleen Farley, the ...
Potts died on April 21, 2023, six days after celebrating his 102nd birthday. He was the penultimate USS Arizona survivor and flags were flown at half-mast through April 28 to honor him at the Pearl Harbor memorial. [3] The last survivor, Lou Conter, died on April 1, 2024. [5]
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Upton was surrounded by his "loving family" when he died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 following a "short ...