charon 4,943 Posted December 7, 2018 Good find Ulitzer but that doesn't include the Axis crews. And they should count as survivors. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 8, 2018 Another Tuskagee boy, Wilfred DeFour, aged 100. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/aircraft-technician-with-tuskegee-airmen-dies-at-100-in-nyc/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 23, 2018 Last fighter from the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943 has died aged 94. Simcha Rotem. http://www.waff.com/2018/12/23/last-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-fighter-simcha-rotem-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted December 23, 2018 7 hours ago, charon said: Last fighter from the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943 has died aged 94. Simcha Rotem. http://www.waff.com/2018/12/23/last-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-fighter-simcha-rotem-dies/ Last Of The Mohicans, I beg you. We don't get too many opportunities. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 23, 2018 3 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Last Of The Mohicans, I beg you. We don't get too many opportunities. Nah, still some of the Wehrmacht/SS around. Last of one side not count. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,655 Posted December 23, 2018 The surviving few As I read it they've specified aircraft flown where they know (which is in most cases), so are we down to literally no surviving Spitfire pilots from the Battle of Britain? Link - https://www.battleofbritain1940.net/bobhsoc/surviving.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,441 Posted December 28, 2018 Georges Loinger reportedly dead, unconfirmed. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://lhistoireenrafale.lunion.fr/2018/12/28/deces-du-resistant-georges-loinger-a-lage-de-108-ans/&prev=search Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted December 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said: Georges Loinger reportedly dead, unconfirmed. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://lhistoireenrafale.lunion.fr/2018/12/28/deces-du-resistant-georges-loinger-a-lage-de-108-ans/&prev=search There's a name SirC dusted off about 2 months ago and now it's popping up here and there. Too low hanging fruit for DDP purposes, but probably some more scrambling for a few teams in each of the DPs out there. "Posted October 31 SC's NOV '18 team 2. Georges Loinger (He looks 10 years older than he is, which is hard to do at 107)" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted December 28, 2018 George Loinger est bien mort : https://www.dna.fr/edition-de-strasbourg/2018/12/28/le-grand-resistant-georges-loinger-s-est-eteint-a-l-age-de-108-ans 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 28, 2018 Marcel Marceau was a cuz according to Wiki. Would've helped when interrogated I'd imagine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted December 28, 2018 Never mind. Double. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted December 28, 2018 14 minutes ago, Whitehouse said: This death was at the beginning of this year. I don't think she was mentioned on this forum when she died but everyone knows her. I'm talking about Naomi Parker. She modeled for a poster that is worldwide recognized as a symbol for women all over the world that they can do things they thought were not for them to do. I'm talking about this one. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Parker#/media/File:We_Can_Do_It!.jpg[/img] Naomi Parker died January 20th 2018 at the age of 96. And as a WW2 symbol I'll include her in the Veterans section. She did her part for the cause. The ever dependable @YoungWillz mentioned her: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted December 28, 2018 2 minutes ago, Cat O'Falk said: The ever dependable @YoungWillz mentioned her: I thought I removed all traces of it. I saw my mistake and deleted the post. But somehow something still stuck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,062 Posted December 28, 2018 I recall she was a pick for Death Impends in the Hare's Pool either last year, this year or both. Anyway, the name stuck and when she copped it, an obvious post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted December 28, 2018 1 hour ago, YoungWillz said: I recall she was a pick for Death Impends in the Hare's Pool either last year, this year or both. Anyway, the name stuck and when she copped it, an obvious post. I remember it being posted because about that time I was on my way to the library and someone had the poster in their front room window. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted December 29, 2018 15 hours ago, Cat O'Falk said: I remember it being posted because about that time I was on my way to the library and someone had the poster in their front room window. I remember it being posted because it was or would be followed up by ANOTHER 'Rosie the Riveter' dying, and Sir Creep's tiny mind was befuddled, and it inspired a discussion on these very threads (I thought) about how Rosie the Riveter was an image moreso than a person and so there were many not one. Perhaps this discussion happened in my home DP page instead. 'twas one or the other. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted December 29, 2018 Nah sure it on here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 6, 2019 On 17/07/2018 at 11:46, alt obits guy said: Corran Purdon, who rose to the rank of Major General and commanded a demolition team that raided the French port of St Nazaire in the spring of 1942, has died. He was 97. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/16/maj-gen-corran-purdon-obituary One of the remaining commandos, Bill Watson, pegged out at the start of December, also aged 97. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/ww2-st-nazaire-commando-dies-15631000 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted January 12, 2019 Bob Barger, a World War II veteran who received his college diploma last spring based on classroom time completed seven decades earlier, has died. He was 97. More of a human interest story than one related to his WWII service. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wwii-vet-degree-delayed-decades-died-60316216 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 14, 2019 On 12/06/2018 at 23:28, alt obits guy said: One of the last surviving Navajo code talkers from World War II, Samuel Tom Holiday, has died. He was 94. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/us/navajo-code-talker-dies-trnd/index.html There was only 400 of the cuntos, yet seems to have been 50 "last of" in the last few Years. Alfred Newman the latest aged 94. https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/01/14/alfred-k-newman-among-last-navajo-code-talkers-has-died/2570535002/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted January 16, 2019 Millicent Young, a member of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), an organization that flew bombers and other warplanes, has died. She was 96. Young was one of fewer than 30 of the 1,000 women chosen for the job to still be alive. https://www.sentinelcolorado.com/0trending/woman-who-was-among-pioneer-pilots-in-wwii-has-died-at-96/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 30, 2019 Patrick McIntyre at 96. Last Pearl Harbour veteran in the Memphis area. Can shut the Memphis Pearl Harbour Veterans Association down now then http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/01/30/last-member-memphis-pearl-harbor-survivors-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 31, 2019 Dunkirk survivor Bill Round at 97. Went on to be known as 'The Old Brit' in future endeavor, as Fire Chief for Sheikh Zayed at Abu Dhabi airport. https://www.thenational.ae/uae/sheikh-zayed-s-old-brit-dies-at-the-age-of-97-1.820082 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,062 Posted February 1, 2019 On 20/07/2018 at 02:03, YoungWillz said: With the loss of Tom Neil and Geoffrey Wellum, of the surviving Few of the Battle of Britain there seem to remain: Flt Lt William Terence Clark (b. 1919) Wg Cmdr John "Tim" Elkington (b. 1920) Wg Cmdr Paul Farnes (b. 1918) Sqn Ldr John Stewart Hart (b. 1916) Flt Lt William Robert Kent Hughes (b. ??) Flt Lt Maurice Mounsdon (b. c1918) Tim Elkington reportedly dead at 98: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,654 Posted February 1, 2019 26 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Tim Elkington reportedly dead at 98: You forgot Hemingway and McInnes again. Hughes is dead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
