Alex B

Here's an updated list as of December 2023: Andre Ludwig [French Resistance]. (1912-) Tripolino Giannini [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1912-) Shi Ping [New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1912-) John Tiniswood [Royal Engineers {Postal Section} of the Home Forces Postal Organization of the British Army]. (1912-) Margaret Romans [Latvian Partisans]. (1912-) Maria Farrugia. (1912-) Rose Girone [The Holocaust]. (1912-) Gunborg Hancock. (1912-) Ilie Ciocan [Romanian Armed Forces]. (1913-) John Farringdon [United States Engineer Combat Battalion]. (1913-) Ken Weeks [Royal Australian Army Engineers unit]. (1913-) Morrie Markoff [United States Army military machinist]. (1914-) Vitantonio Lovallo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1914-) Maurice Le Contour [Free French Forces of the Dunkirk evacuation]. (1914-) Ailsa Stewart [Women's Royal Naval Service]. (1914-) 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-) Yoshiko Miwa [Executive Order 9066]. (1914-) Viola Fletcher [Kaiser Richmond shipyard labor force worker]. (1914-) James Clayton Flowers [Tuskegee Airmen]. (1915-) Harold Nelson [United States Army] (1915-) Albert Middleton [Royal Canadian Air Force]. (1915-) Min Jingde [Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1915-) Burdett Sisler [Royal Canadian Air Force radio technician]. (1915-) Vincenzo Prete [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1915-) Ann Konkel. (1915-) Phyllis Furness. (1915-) Ma Shitu. (1915) Herbert "Drum" Druce [Royal Air Force Spitfire flight engineer]. (1915-) Angelina Searles [Japanese Invasion of Corregidor]. (1915-) Rinaldo Duranti [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito]. (1915-) Lake White [Rosie the Riveter munitions worker]. (1915-) Werner Ahrens [Reich Labour Service and Panzerwaffe of the Wehrmacht]. (1915-) Gerhard Enger [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1915-) Geneviève Callerot [French Resistance]. (1916-) Ervin "Judge" Wendt [United States Navy of the Battle of Midway]. (1916-) Bill Monfort [Attack on Pearl Harbor]. (1916-) Bruno Kant [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Leonid Lazarevich Skvortsov [Soviet Red Army]. (1916-) Albert Van Raemdonck [Free Belgian Forces]. (1916-) James Easton [Australian Army & POW of the Thai/Burma railway]. (1916-) Bernhard Beckers [Afrika Korps of the Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Mihaila Ion [Romanian Armed Forces]. (1916-) Joe Harris [Buffalo Soldier of the United States Army]. (1916-) Valentin Roslyakov [Soviet Red Army]. (1916-) Alexander Pierro [United States Army Air Corps loadmaster]. (1916-) Jean Sevin [Free French Forces]. (1916-) Al Klugiewicz [United States Army Thunderbolt division, Horse Cavalry, & Normandy Landings]. (1916-) Kurt Debes [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Heinz Zache [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1916-) Ena Collymore-Woodstock [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. (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-) Hellen Guthrie [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service]. (1917-) Živan Popović [Yugoslav Partisans]. (1917-) Edward Trevland [Royal Norwegian Navy] (1917-) Albert Libert [Free Belgian Forces]. (1917-) Blažena Strachotová. (1917-) Colin Wagener [Australian Army]. (1917-) Kurt Gigler [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1917-) Yang You [Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1917-) Cecily Hawkins [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. (1917-) Gerald McCulloch [Royal Air Force plane mechanic]. (1917-) Duane Brewton [2nd Infantry Division of the United States Army]. (1917-) Gotthilf Widmaier [Kriegsmarine]. (1917-) Eunice Byers. [Last surviving eyewitness to the Battle of Bamber Bridge] (1917-) Mirjam Bolle-Levie [Judenrat of The Holocaust]. (1917-) Reynolds Tomter [Merchant Marines]. (1917-) Betty Gemmell [Labour Force worker of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia]. (1917-) Robert Coyreau des Loges [Free French Forces]. (1917-) William Precek [48th Evacuation Hospital Unit of the United States Army]. (1917-) Merrill Moore [United States Army]. (1917-) Lloyd Gathright [United States Army]. (1917-) Clarence Sheley [United States Navy]. (1917-) Genevieve Freer [United States War Bonds labour worker]. (1917-) Arnold Von Der Porten [The Holocaust]. (1917-) Feng Hongzhi [Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1917-) Helmut Damrath [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1917-) Brenda Milner. (1918-) Alfons Tomke. (1918-) Bruno Segre [Italian Resistance]. (1918-) Ernest Horsfall [Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of the British Army]. (1918-) John Hamilton [British Army of the Dunkirk evacuation]. (1918-) Carlo Domenichini [United States Army Signal Corps]. (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-) Endel Uiga [Estonian Partisans]. (1918-) Joe Veselsky [Czech Resistance]. (1918-) Max D. Liston [United States engineer, scientist, and factory munitions worker]. (1918-) Bob Putnam [United States Navy]. (1918-) Masamitsu Yoshioka. [Last surviving Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor] (1918-) Ervín Hoida. [Last surviving Czechoslovak veteran of the Battle of France] (1918-) Toshiko Kato [Executive Order 9066]. (1918-) Bill Wheeler [United States Army Air Forces]. (1918-) John Drake [United States Army]. (1918-) Claude Bell Sr. [United States Army Medical Corps of the United States Army]. (1918-) Frank White [United States Army]. (1918-) Wilbur Britton [United States Army Corps]. (1918-) Kurt Anclam [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1918-) Claus von Boro [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1918-) Rudolf Kiwitter [Heer/Wehrmacht] (1918-) Paul Kraszon [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1918-) Helmut Kuhny [Heer/Wehrmacht]. (1918-) John Hemingway. [Royal Air Force pilot of the Normandy Landings & Dunkirk evacuation of the No. 85 RAF Squadron & last surviving pilot of The Few who fought during the Battle of Britain] (1919-) Nancy Stratford. [Last surviving Attagirl of the Air Transport Auxiliary] (1919-) 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 British POW of the Thai/Burma Death Railway] (1919-) André Hissink. [Last living member of the No. 320 Netherlands RAF Squadron] (1919-) Romay Davis [6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the United States Army]. (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-) John Hillman [Royal Air Force]. (1919-) Cecil Parker [Normandy Landings]. (1919-) Roy Hashimura [United States Army]. (1919-) Aleksander Lestan. (1919-) Jehuda Widawski [The Holocaust]. (1919-) Howard Bier [United States Army Air Forces]. (1919-) E. Gerald Meyer [United States Navy of the United States Naval Research Laboratory]. (1919-) Charlie Duncan [General George Patton's United States Third Army of the U.S Forces]. (1919-) Thomas Gwynn [United States Army]. (1919-) Raymond Whitwell [British Expeditionary Force of the Dunkirk evacuation & Eighth Army of the British Army of the Battle of El Alamein]. (1919-) Arthur Leggett [2/11th Battalion of the Australian Army of the Battle of Tobruk]. (1919-) Hugh Davies [United States Army Air Forces]. (1919-) Sam Mattox [United States Army]. (1919-) John Henry Chaney [United States Marine Corps]. (1919-) Morton Katz [509th Parachute Infantry Battalion of the United States Army Air Forces]. (1919-)

Rest in peace to one of Australia's most prominent and widely known WW2 veterans Keith "Chook" Fowler, who passed away on Thursday, November 30th, at the age of 103, and was known for being a POW and survivor of the infamous Burma/Thai death railway that was supervised by the IJA and was also the last surviving member of the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion of the Second Australian Imperial Force. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/sa-world-war-ii-veteran-keith-fowler-dies/103180624

I've heard that there are more but how many, I only know of a few, including Veora Bliss-Baldwin, who turns 99 this year https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2023/nov/08/98-year-old-rosie-the-riveter-from-american-fork-honored-for-her-service-in-wwii/ There is also a group of Rosie's who were honored in March of this year https://www.wemu.org/wemu-news/2023-03-30/rosie-the-riveters-treated-like-royalty-with-honor-flight-to-washington-d-c Hopefully they can make it to 100 or more, it's sad that the Greatest Generation is dying too fast

It's actually suprising that he made it to 100, usually most of the Cold War era dictators have died off, there are still a few, but dwindling

German philosopher Hans Albert dead at 102 https://www.thewestonforum.com/science-sociologist-hans-albert-has-died-at-the-age-of-102/

Just now found out about the death of the last Cowra breakout survivor https://www.cowraguardian.com.au/story/8365552/last-surviving-cowra-breakout-prisoner-passes-away/

I know a few Free French Forces veterans- Maurice Le Coutour (1914-) Free French Army Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921-) Free French Army and Free French Air Forces Philippe de Gaulle (1921-) Free French Naval Forces Colette Escoffier-Martini (1922-) Merlinettes of the Free French Forces Auguste Plenet (1924-) Last living French-Guianese veteran of the Free French Army That's all i know of, haven't found much luck with Vichy France veterans

Rest in peace to Reuben Sinclair, who passed away on the 29th https://bc.ctvnews.ca/funeral-held-for-111-year-old-reuben-sinclair-canada-s-oldest-known-veteran-1.6541511

http://www.iwojimaassociation.org/ https://www.ksmu.org/news/2023-01-17/springfield-centenarian-served-at-battle-of-midway-iwo-jima-and-the-korean-war https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/sports/baseball/bill-greason-negro-leagues.html https://www.theday.com/local-news/20191115/harry-danos-mixes-artistry-with-helping-local-veterans/ https://www.bristolpress.com/news/local-wwii-veterans-honored-on-78th-anniversary-of-iwo-jima/article_2a952488-b09e-11ed-8799-4b8dfaf5520f.html

James L. Buckley dead https://nypost.com/2023/08/18/former-new-york-sen-james-l-buckley-dies-at-100/ Al Quie dead https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/former-minnesota-governor-congressman-al-quie-dies-99-102394297

Bob Batterson passed away on August 11th, of this year https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2023/08/15/robert-bob-patterson-pearl-harbor-survivor-dies-at-102-corpus-christi/70598064007/

There is a good amount of veterans still with us as far as i know

An update on deaths: Marcel Barbary https://the110club.com/marcel-barbary-1914-2023-t29648.html Stanislaw Pelka https://the110club.com/stanis-aw-pe-ka-1914-2023-t29735.html Bror Larsson https://the110club.com/bror-larsson-1914-2023-t29657.html Georgios Koliopoulos https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Georgios_Koliopoulos Cosmas D. Eaglin Sr. https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/nc/fayetteville/cosmas-eaglin-sr-16801590

Not sure if he was what many would call notable, but rest in peace to Lawrence Churcher, who many believed to be the last Royal Navy veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation, passed away at 102. https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/news/dunkirk-evacuation-hero-lawrence-churcher-dies-aged-102/

Rest in peace to Johnny Lujack, WW2 navy veteran who hunted down German U Boats and football legend known for winning the 1947 Heisman trophy https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2023/07/25/1947-notre-dame-football-heisman-winner-johnny-lujack-dies-at-98-sarasota-florida/70464928007/

Rest in peace to centenerian, Warsaw Uprising survivor, and WW2 veteran of the Polish Army Kazimierz Klimczak, who was 109 years old https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2023-07-14/nie-zyje-plk-kazimierz-klimczak-najstarszy-zolnierz-wp-powstaniec-warszawski-mial-109-lat/

Rest in peace to Raymond Cassagnol (1920-2023), who was reported as the last living Haitian Tuskegee Airman who fought during World War Two, and was known as Red Tails or Schwartze Vogelmenschen” ("The Black Birdman") by the Nazis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2023/06/30/tuskegee-airmen-death/bbecf2de-1788-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html

German equestrian Wilhelm Büsing, who was notable for competing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, winning the silver and bronze medals, and also winning a silver medal at the 1954 European Championships, has died at 102. https://www.horses.nl/overige-disciplines/eventing/eventing-overig/dr-wilhelm-busing-102-overleden/

As of June, 18th, 2023, there are only four living veterans still living from the Chaco War (1932-1935), between the Bolivians and Paraguayans. Virgilio Davalos (October 8th, 1914-) Soldier of the Paraguayan Army Jose Domingo Vargas (September 15th, 1915-) Soldier of the Paraguayan Army Canuto Gonzalez (January 19th, 1916-) Soldier of the Paraguayan Army Samuel Chuquimia Murillo (August 15th, 1916-) Last living soldier of the Bolivian Army

WW2 veterans Bob Putnam (1918-) and George "Truman" Waters (1921-) turned 105 and 102 on June 12th. https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/conroe-world-war-ii-vets-share-june-12-birthday-18140155.php

I see Ulitzer, but who knows, he might be gone tomorrow, numbers are dwindling, but hmmm my bad

A WW2 veteran, Raymond Whitwell, who fought with the short lived British Expeditionary Force at the start of the war to the surrender of the formation during the Evacuation of Dunkirk, after British and French forces surrendered to the advancing Germans, and who also fought in the battles of El Alamein and Arnhem, turned 104 in March 21st. https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/23401183.malton-world-war-2-veteran-raymond-whitwell-celebrates-104th-birthday/

Rest in peace to Lim Kean Chye, who fought for the freedom and independence of then British Malaya and British Hong Kong, now just Malaysia and Hong Kong. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2023/06/09/independence-fighter-and-politician-lim-kean-chye-dies-at-103

Billionaire Jacques Gaston Murray, known as Tony Murray, noted for owning Andrew Sykes Group and London Security & also being a WW2 veteran known for serving in the Free French Forces and Royal Air Force, has died at 103 years old. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/andrews-sykes-london-security-chairman-jacques-gaston-murray-dies-aged-103-fab5f31d

Does anyone know how many Military MPs (Military Police) from the Nuremberg Trials that are still alive