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WW2 veteran, according to Lincoln Journal Star, is the last living crewman of the AGC-9, also known as the USS Wasatch, who saw service during the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre, and recently turned 100 years old. https://journalstar.com/news/local/lincoln-wwii-veteran-plans-to-celebrate-100th-birthday-with-a-runza-hamburger/article_ce8fe4cc-fbd2-11ed-ae68-6b0dfe5e7fb3.html
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Yes i knew about them, last time i checked they were all three still alive, just unfortunate that he passed, such a good guy
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WW2 veteran Martin Adler, who saved three children from the Nazis during the war and eventually meeting up with them years later, has died at 99 https://cbs12.com/news/local/martin-adler-wwii-vet-whose-story-went-viral-dies-99-boca-raton-florida-5-30-2023
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James K. Kunkle, the last living member of the 401st Fighter Squadron during WW2, was honoured by the Nebraska Air National Guard’s 173rd Air Refueling Squadron and the 144th Fighter Wing, California Air National Guard, for his noble services. https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/News-Features/Article/3391992/nebraska-california-national-guard-units-honor-wwii-veteran/
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Here is a list i compiled of WW2 veterans, ranging from soldiers, Resistance members, and people who experienced firsthand the horrors of the war that were born in the 1910s era. Reuben Sinclair [Royal Canadian Air Force]. (1911-2023) Rashid Karimov [Soviet Red Army]. (1912-) Andre Ludwig [French Resistance]. (1912-) Rudy Thompson [United States Army]. (1912-2023) Tripolino Giannini [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1912-) Salvatore Nardi [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1912-) Shi Ping [Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1912-) John Tiniswood [Royal Engineers {Postal Section} of the Home Forces Postal Organization]. (1912-) Margaret Romans [Latvian Partisans]. (1912-) Maria Farrugia. (1912-) Rose Girone [The Holocaust]. (1912-) Gunborg Hancock. (1912-) Huang Decheng [Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman]. (1913-) Ilie Ciocan [Romanian Armed Forces]. (1913-) Pierre Pineau [Free French Forces]. (1913-2023) Marcel Reichstein [The Holocaust]. (1913-) John Farringdon [United States Engineer Combat Battalion]. (1913-) Irena Siła-Nowicka [The Holocaust]. (1913-2023) Ken Weeks [Royal Australian Engineers]. (1913-) Rafaela Vicente [Philippines Resistance]. (1913-2023) Marcel Barbary [Free French Forces]. (1914-2023) Morrie Markoff. (1914-) Kazimierz Klimczak [Home Army/Armia Krajowa]. (1914-2023) Mullahan Nurislamov [Soviet Red Army]. (1914-2023) Vitantonio Lovallo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1914-) Luigi Miti [Royal Navy/Regia Marina]. (1914-) Maurice Le Contour [Free French Forces of the Dunkirk evacuation]. (1914-) Ailsa Stewart [Women's Royal Naval Service]. (1914-) Stanisław Pełka [The Holocaust]. (1914-2023) Bror Larsson [Norwegian Army]. (1914-2023) Karlheinz Stauber [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1914-) Donald Rose [7th Armored Brigade/Desert Rats]. (1914-) Julia Iverson [Women's Royal Naval Service]. (1914-) James C. Floyd. (1914-) James Clayton Flowers [Tuskegee Airmen]. (1915-) Harold Nelson [United States Army] (1915-) Cosmas D. Eaglin Sr. [United States Marine Corps]. (1915-2023) Georgios Koliopoulos [ELAS] (1915-2023) Albert Middleton [Royal Canadian Air Force]. (1915-) Hatsuo Hidaka [Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service]. (1915-) Nils Severin Økland [Royal Norwegian Navy]. (1915-) Min Jingde [Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1915-) Burd Sisler [Royal Canadian Legion Horse Artillery of the Canadian Army]. (1915-) Constantin Năstase [Romanian Armed Forces]. (1915-) Iosif Rus [Romanian Armed Forces]. (1915-) Vincenzo Prete [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1915-) Ann Konkel. (1915-) Phyllis Furness. (1915-) Mary Brackenbury [Royal Observer Corps]. (1915-2023) Isabel Crook. (1915-2023) Friedrich Grade. [Last surviving Kriegsmarine crew mate of the German submarine U-96] (1916-2023) Geneviève Callerot [French Resistance]. (1916-) Ervin "Judge" Wendt [United States Navy of the Battle of Midway]. (1916-) Bill Monfort [United States Navy]. (1916-) Bruno Kant [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Francis Eric "Pony" Moore [Royal Army]. (1916-) Leonid Lazarevich Skvortsov [Soviet Red Army]. (1916-) Albert Van Raemdonck [Free Belgian Forces]. (1916-) Georgette Jeanne Scops [The Maquis]. (1916-2023) James Easton [Australian Army]. (1916-) Herb Keen [New Zealand Army]. (1916-2023) Bernhard Beckers [Afrika Korps of the Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Ena Collymore-Woodstock [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. (1917-) Jiro Tanaka [Imperial Japanese Army]. (1917-) Makoto Ogawa [Imperial Japanese Army Air Service]. (1917-) John Kinsel Sr. [Navajo Code Talker]. (1917-) Frank Chuman [Executive Order 9066]. (1917-) Nestor da Silva [Brazilian Expeditionary Force]. (1917-) Helen Guthrie [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service]. (1917-) Živan Popović [Yugoslav Partisans]. (1917-) Edward Trevland [Royal Norwegian Navy] (1917-) Rachel Gorman [Women's Timber Corps]. (1917-) Albert Libert [Free Belgian Forces]. (1917-) Blažena Strachotová. (1917-) Bill Bruce [Australian Army]. (1917-) Colin Wagener [Australian Army]. (1917-) Joseph Eskenazi [Attack on Pearl Harbor]. (1918-2023) Brenda Milner. (1918-) Alfons Tomke. (1918-) Bruno Segre [Italian Resistance]. (1918-) Ernest Horsfall [Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army]. (1918-) Angel Martín Taboas [United States Army]. (1918-) John Hamilton [British Army of the Dunkirk evacuation]. (1918-) Carlo Domenichini [United States Army]. (1918-) Irene Hosking [United States Army Nurse Corps]. (1918-) Ralph Schnorr [United States Navy]. (1918-) Richard Overman Sr. [United States Army Air Forces]. (1918-) Erdman Blank [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Linda Raunet [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Endel Uiga [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Joe Veselsky [Czech Resistance]. (1918-) Max D. Liston [United States engineer, scientist, and factory munitions worker]. (1918-) Masamitsu Yoshioka. [Last surviving Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor] (1918-) John Hemingway. [Last surviving pilot of The Few] (1919-) Nancy Stratford. [Last surviving woman pilot of the Air Transport Auxiliary] (1919-) Nelson Broms. (1919-) Cresencia Garcia [6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion] (1919-2023) Jim Miller [Royal Australian Air Force]. (1919-) Władysław Siemaszko [Home Army/Armia Krajowa]. (1919-) Pietro Omodeo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1919-) Klaus Obermeyer. (1919-) Addold Mossin [Finnish Army]. (1919-) Jack Jennings. [Last living survivor of the Burma Death Railway] (1919-) André Hissink. [Last living member of the No. 320 Netherlands RAF Squadron] (1919-) Elinor Otto [Rosie the Riveter munitions worker]. (1919-) Justino Pires de Arruda [Brazilian Expeditionary Force]. (1919-) Hugo Pedro Felisbino. [Last living Força Expedicionária Brasileira {FEB} male nurse]. (1919-) Tetsuo Sato [Imperial Japanese Army]. (1919-) John Dorsey [Tuskegee Airmen]. (1919-) Les Morice [Australian Army]. (1919-) Bryan Bouchard [Royal Navy]. (1919-) John Hillman [Royal Air Force]. (1919-) Cecil Parker [Normandy Landings]. (1919-) Roy Hashimura [United States Army]. (1919-) Jeanne Gloden-Muller [The Holocaust]. (1919-) Aleksander Lestan. (1919-) Lim Kean Chye. (1919-2023) Jehuda Widawski [The Holocaust]. (1919-) Howard Bier [United States Army Air Forces]. (1919-) E. Gerald Meyer [United States Navy]. (1919-) Charlie Duncan [General George Patton's United States Third Army]. (1919-)
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Been trying to search the last living veterans of the Baltic States during WW2 {Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia}, here is who i have found so far. Margaret Romans [Latvian Partisans]. (1912-) Erdman Blank [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Linda Raunet [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Endel Uiga [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane [Latvian Partisans]. (1925-) Valdas Adamkus [Lithuanian Partisans]. (1926-)
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Nick Janicki (1923-), a 99 year old Canadian World War Two veteran who helped liberate the Dutch city of Deventer in April of 1945, will be turning 100 years old in August. https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/bc-news/nanaimo-veteran-honoured-in-dutch-liberation-commemoration-7001063
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Máirín Hughes [1914], the oldest known person in Ireland and most likely the oldest living to have witnessed the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), has turned 109 years old today. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/05/22/live-life-to-the-full-says-irelands-oldest-woman-on-her-109th-birthday/
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French Resistance member Edmond Réveil and last living witness to a 1944 massacre of 47 German soldiers and 1 French woman who were accused of collaborating with the Gestapo speaks up about what happened and where the location of the bodies are buried. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/18/french-resistance-fighter-98-reveals-mass-execution-of-german-prisoners
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The Italian vets that i have so far is Tripolino Giannini (1912-) of the Royal Italian Army, Salvatore Nardi (1912-) of the Royal Italian Army, Vitantonio Lovallo (1914-) of the Royal Italian Army, Luigi Miti (1914-) of the Royal Italian Navy, Pietro Omodeo (1919-) of the Royal Italian Army, Enrico Vanzini (1922-) of the Royal Italian Army, and Guiseppe Paterno (1923-) of the Royal Italian Navy, & Ilie Ciocan (1913-), Iosif Rus (1915-), and Constantin Năstase (1915-) of the Romanian Armed Forces.
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I have a question, does anybody know if there are any Hungarian, Croatian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Thai, Indian, Korean, Vichy French, Serbian, and Mongolian veterans of the Axis powers that are still living, I tried searching a lot of them, but come to dead ends, I know a few Italian and Romanian vets, but was wondering if there were more
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I apologize Ulitzer95, I will try better, there's just so many
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César Yanes Urías (1920-) is the last living major member of the military Junta of Government in El Salvador during the 1960 coup de'état.
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According to Fox10 Phoenix, Philippine native who later emigrated to the United States, Thomas Mayor, who was reported to be the last living survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March, died just 3 days ago on the 15th of this year, but through thorough research, I found out that he is not the very last as reported, as there are two other Filipino Bataan Death March survivors still alive that i know of, that being Lt. Nino A. Sylmar (1925-) and Lt. George Bach (1926-). https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/world-war-ii-veteran-remembered-mesa-family-honors-life-of-patriarch-who-survived-bataan-death-march https://www.southwesttimes.com/news/local-veteran-recognized-service http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/partner-keeping-stories-of-filipino-world-war-ii-veterans-alive-in-white-sands
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The very last known living Inuit contributor to the war effort during WW2 - Qapik Attagutsiak (1919-) https://m.facebook.com/BaffinlandIronMines/videos/elder-qapik-attagutsiak-is-celebrating-her-102nd-birthday-this-week/4981188528645846/?_se_imp=0jsvA08yokvgL79gB https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/haida/culture/femmes-women/attagutsiak
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Everything about him just dates to 2020 when he was 99, but nothing about 2021, 2022, or 2023, so i don't really know for sure, but if he is still alive, he would be 101/102, but until recent news about him comes up, I don't know for sure
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As far as i know, there are only about six Brazilian veterans of WW2 who are still living, all who were part of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force {FEB}. Nestor da Silva (1917-) <oldest living and last of the Federal District> Justino Pires de Arruda (1919-) <last living of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul> Hugo Pedro Felisbino (1919-) <last FEB male nurse> Mário Expedito Neves Guerreiro (1920-) <last living of the state of the Amazonas> João Carlos de Lima (1922-) <last living of the state of Rio Grande do Norte> Walter Carlos Hertel (1922-) <last FEB messenger
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WW2 veteran, notable for visiting Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945 as part of the occupation forces, Joseph Nagy (1923-2023) passed away just yesterday at the age of 100, and was a major pillar to his community of Fanwood, New Jersey, where he lived for the past 60 years, and even received a key to the city by the mayor. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fanwood-mourns-the-loss-of-wwii-veteran-joe-nagy-100/ar-AA1bgjfE
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WW2 veteran and New Zealand's oldest man Jack Coe (1916-2023) passed away just yesterday at the age of 107, just a couple days after his birthday on the 11th. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2023/05/new-zealand-s-oldest-man-jack-coe-dies-days-after-celebrating-107th-birthday.html
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World War Two veteran of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Meta Monteleon passed away recently on May 9th at the ripe age of 108. https://www.41nbc.com/oldest-living-wwii-nurse-passes-away-at-108/
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Eugeniusz Jan Niedzielski (1923-) Not sure if he was posted here before, didn't see him when i searched around, but if i happened to miss him and he was already posted, then i apologize, but anyways he served in the Polish 1st Armored Division during WW2.
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Nils Severin Økland (1915-), who served in the Royal Norwegian Navy during WW2, turned 108 in February https://forsvaretsforum.no/andre-verdenskrig-historie-meninger/gratulerer-med-108-arsdagen-sjokaptein-nils-severin-okland/309568
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Dang you guys are good, guess i gotta learn more
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With the deaths of Abraham Zarem (1917-2023) and Ruth Huddleston (1925-2023), there are very few personnel of the Manhattan Project [1942-1946] that are still left living. https://www.jta.org/2023/03/16/obituaries/abraham-zarem-one-of-the-last-surviving-manhattan-project-scientists-dies-at-106 https://www.oakridger.com/story/lifestyle/2023/03/16/goodbye-to-a-calutron-girl/70009520007/ Here are a few that i know of that are still with us = Harris Mayer (1921-), Dieter Gruen (1922-), & Peter Lax (1926-) https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/harris-mayer/ https://www.anl.gov/article/meet-dieter-gruen-renowned-scientist-and-innovator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Lax
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According to The 110 club and Gerontology, the passing of 110 year old Moon Fun Chin happened on the 9th of May, 2023, who was the last living China National Aviation Corporation [CNAC] pilot left alive, after fellow pilot Peter Goutierre died on the 22nd of January, and while WW2 was raging on, he personally flew the plane that was used to transport James Doolittle to safety after his notorious bombing raid over Tokyo. https://the110club.com/moon-fun-chin-1913-2023-t29515.html https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Fun_Chin