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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 ...
World War II veteran Ed Vrona visits with his birthday party guests at his 104th birthday party on July 4th at Emory L. Bennett Memorial Veterans Nursing Home in Daytona Beach. Vrona died on ...
The U.S. Navy veteran died Dec. 1 in hospice care at age 97, according to his obituary, and Lebanon, New Hampshire resident Kevin Dougherty, one of more than 200 attendees at the funeral.
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.
After 80 years, a World War II sergeant killed in Germany has returned home to California. Sgt. Donald V. Banta as he was brought from Ontario International Airport to a burial home in Riverside ...
The Veterans Home of California is located in Yountville, California, and was founded in 1884. [1] [2] The facility is the largest of its kind in the United States and has a population of almost 800 aged and disabled veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom.
She died in 1998. He lived in Canada for a few years, but returned to Ireland in 2011. [3] He was one of the nine surviving members of The Few in July 2018. [16] By 2019, he was living in a nursing home near Dublin. [1] When William Clark died on 7 May 2020, Hemingway became the last verified surviving airman of the Battle of Britain.
Lt. Arnold "Arnie" Joseph, 96, of Granville, the village's last surviving World War II veteran and a translator at the Nuremberg trials, died Feb. 11.