The Old Crem 3,660 Posted Monday at 23:51 ‘Captain Larry Taylor, navigator who assisted in the sinking of the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst‘ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,284 Posted Thursday at 15:01 On 07/11/2024 at 22:44, Sinbabad said: Two Pearl Harbor veterans died at 101 years old on 3 November : Charles Theodore Sehe and Edward Stone. I also found three alive veterans that aren’t on your list : Isaac George (103) Warren Upton (105) Geb Galle (103) Warren Upton reportedly dead on Christmas Day: 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex B 85 Posted yesterday at 01:59 An updated list of WW2 veterans, both soldiers and civilians related to the War who were born in the 1910s period, also a small number from the Interwar period, who are still living as of December 2024= Shigeko Kagawa [Imperial Japanese Army {IJA} volunteer nurse of the Osaka field hospital and survivor of the Bombing of Osaka during the Allied air raids of Japan]. (1911-) Margaret Romans [Latvian Partisans against the Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States and against Nazi German forces]. (1912-) Rose Girone [The Holocaust]. (1912-) Ilie Ciocan [Romanian Armed Forces during the Odessa and Prague offensives of the Eastern Front]. (1913-) Ken Weeks [Royal Australian Army Engineers unit during the Pacific Theater]. (1913-) Philip Matanyatanya Matsebula. [Last surviving veteran of Swaziland who served in the African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps {AAPC} during the Italian campaign] (1913-) Vitantonio Lovallo [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito during the European Theater]. (1914-) Maurice Le Coutour [Free French Forces of the Dunkirk evacuation]. (1914-) Donald Rose [7th Armored Division/Desert Rats of the British Army during the Western Desert campaign, Tunisian campaign, Italian Campaign, Operation Overlord/Normandy Landings, and the Siegfried Line campaign] (1914-) Yoshiko Miwa [POW of the Japanese-American internment camps that were initiated by Executive Order 9066]. (1914-) Viola Fletcher [Wendy the Welder factory worker of the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards]. (1914-) Eugene Baltes [United States Navy] (1914-) John Huang [Free Dutch forces during the Western Front]. (1914-) Primo Olivieri [Brazilian Expeditionary Force/Força Expedicionária Brasileira {FEB} plane mechanic]. (1914-) Rita Farmer [Erie Electronics Company secretary and assistant who survived the 1944 Luftwaffe Bombings of Britain]. (1914-) Catherine Gode [French Resistance who helped hide Jews during the German occupation of France]. (1914-) Hikaru Katō [Imperial Japanese Army {IJA} during the Philippines campaign & the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and POW of the American Forces]. (1914-) James Clayton Flowers [99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group/Tuskegee Airmen during the North African campaign, Italian campaign, and the European Theater of Operations]. (1915-) Albert Middleton [Royal Canadian Air Force {RCAF} pilot of the European Theater]. (1915-) Burdett Sisler [Royal Canadian Air Force {RCAF} radio technician]. (1915-) Iosif Rus [Romanian Armed Forces of the Crimean campaign, Battle of Romania, Battle of Turda, Battle of Carei, Siege of Budapest, and the Prague offensive during the Eastern Front]. (1915-) Karl Haidle [Reich Labour Service/Reichsarbeitsdienst, Gebirgsjäger of the Wehrmacht during the European Theater, and POW of the Yugoslav Partisans]. (1915-) Maria Petrovna Koroleva [Soviet Red Army nurse aid during the Siege of Leningrad during the Eastern Front]. (1915-) Henry Polichetti [United States Navy radio operator during the Pacific War] (1915-) Margaret Lambourn . (1915) . William Staples [British Armed Forces during the European Theater]. (1915-) Chester Meros [United States Home Front ship builder of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation]. (1915-) Geneviève Callerot [French Resistance against Nazi German and Vichy French forces during the Axis occupation of France]. (1916-) Bill Monfort [United States Navy of the Attack on Pearl Harbor]. (1916-) Bruno Kant [Heer/Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa and the Eastern Front]. (1916-) Leonid Lazarevich Skvortsov [Soviet Red Army during the Byelorussian offensive, East Prussian offensive, and the Baltic offensive of the Eastern Front]. (1916-) Bernhard Beckers [Reich Labour Service/Reichsarbeitsdienst of the German Armed Forces and POW of the Americans] (1916-) Joe Harris. [Last surviving member of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion/The Triple Nickles of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army] (1916-) Ervin Wendt [Grumman TBF Avenger rear gunner of Torpedo Squadron 8 {VT-8} of the USS Hornet {CV-8} & USS Saratoga {CV-3} of the United States Navy during the Battle of Midway and the Guadalcanal campaign, crewmember of the VH-2 {Rescue Squadron 1} during the Battle of Iwo Jima of the Pacific War, one of the last living members of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps {CCC}, and one of the last living veterans who fought in Midway]. (1916-) Del Marlow [Coal miner union worker for the war effort of the United States Home Front]. (1916-) Aldo Giaccone [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito and POW of the German Army after the Italian Armistice of 1943]. (1916-) Mariano Norata [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito during the Battle of France, Balkans campaign, & Yugoslavian campaign, and POW of the German Army after the Italian Armistice of 1943]. (1916-) Harry Waddingham. [Royal Navy {RN} of HMS Wakeful during the Dunkirk evacuation, HMS Juno during the Battle of Crete, Battle of the Atlantic, and last living Navy veteran of the evacuation of Dunkirk] (1916-) Oakley Hacker [United States Navy gunner's mate of the SS Oliver Wolcott Liberty Ship during the Battle of the Atlantic and artillery support during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord]. (1916-) Fred Quam [United States Army Air Corps {USAAC}]. (1916-) Bep Binkhorst [Dutch resistance during the German Occupation of the Netherlands and prisoner at the Agfa Kamerawerke/Agfacommando satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust]. (1916-) Joe Burgess [United States Army Air Forces {USAAF} B-24 rear gunner and sergeant during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord of 1944]. (1916-) James “Jim” Easton. [8th Infantry Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force {2nd AIF} of the Australian Army during the Pacific War and last living POW of the Burma Death Railways at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army] (1916-) Ted Price [Canadian Army during the European Theater]. (1916-) Donald Johnson [United States Navy of the USS Iowa during the Pacific War]. (1916-) John Shannon [British Army bomb disposal expert during the European theatre]. (1916-) Ena Collymore-Woodstock [Auxiliary Territorial Service {ATS} radio operator]. (1917-) Frank Chuman [Executive Order 9066]. (1917-) Nestor da Silva. [Brazilian Expeditionary Force {FEB}/Smoking Snakes of the Allied invasion of Italy during the Italian campaign and last living recipient of the Combat Cross 1st Class awarded during the War] (1917-) Alfons Pauwels [Free Belgian forces during the Western Front]. (1917-) Albert Libert [Free Belgian forces during the Western Front]. (1917-) Colin Wagener [Australian Army of the Battle of North Borneo during the Pacific Theater]. (1917-) Yang You [National Revolutionary Army {NRA} during the Second Sino-Japanese War]. (1917-) Duane Brewton [2nd Infantry Division of the United States Army of the Battle of Saint-Lô and the wider European Theater]. (1917-) Gotthilf Widmaier [The Kriegsmarine of the German Armed Forces during the Battle of the Atlantic]. (1917-) Hellmuth Gawron [Heer/Wehrmacht during the German invasion of Poland/September Campaign, Operation Barbarossa, Western Allied invasion of Germany, and POW of the Soviets during the Soviet Occupation of Germany]. (1917-) Mirjam Bolle-Levie. [Secretary of the Committee for Jewish Refugees/Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen {CJV}, Jewish Council for Amsterdam during the German Occupation of Amsterdam, and survivor of the Holocaust] (1917-) Reynolds Tomter [United States Merchant Marines [USMM] of the United States Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic]. (1917-) Robert Coyreau des Loges [Free French Forces during the European Theater]. (1917-) Laurie Lefeaux [Royal Canadian Air Force {RCAF} flight instructor]. (1917-) Tadeusz Lutak [Motorcycle messenger of a Vickers tank regiment during the Polish-Czechoslovak border conflicts of 1938, 121st light tank company of the 10th Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland/September Campaign, Union of Armed Struggle/Związek Walki Zbrojnej {ZWZ} & Home Army/Armia Krajowa during the German occupation of Poland, and Rzeszow Inspectorate of the Home Army of the Polish Underground State/Polskie Państwo Podziemne {PPP} during the Liberation of the country by the Soviet Union]. (1917-) Pierre Nabion [French Army during the Dunkirk evacuation, French Forces of the Interior/Forces françaises de l'intérieur during the German Military Administration of France, and liberator of Occupied France during the country's liberation in 1944]. (1917-) Auguste Bayol [Free French Forces during the German Occupation of France who fought during the Liberation of France in 1944]. [1917-) Mario Miscia. [Last living Royal Italian Army veteran of the Battle of Crete during the German invasion of Greece and POW of the German Army after the Italian Armistice of 1943]. (1917-) Frank Chester [Royal Navy {RN} of HMS Honeysuckle during the Battle of the Atlantic]. (1917-) Antonio Bragato [Royal Italian Army/Regio Esercito machine gunner during the Yugoslavian campaign and POW of the German Army after the Italian Armistice of 1943]. (1917-) Octave Perrette [49th Alpine Infantry Regiment/Chasseurs Alpins of the French Army during the Battle of France, POW of the German Army during the Occupation of France, French Foreign Legion {FFL} of the Free French Forces & 1st West Indian Battalion of the United States Army during the Syria–Lebanon campaign, and the 1st Free French Division during the Italian campaign and the Liberation of France]. (1917-) Guerino Patani [Courier for the Carabinieri against the Fascist Italians, one of the last living witnesses to the Ardeatine massacre, and Italian Resistance Movement of the Clandestine Military Front during the Italian Civil War]. (1917-) Alfred Blaschke [United States Army Air Forces {USAAF} aircraft engineer]. (1917-) Bob Aumiller [United States Army during the European Theater and Battle of the Bulge]. (1917-) John L'Hote [United States Army during the Liberation of France]. (1917-) Vance “Red” Hill [United States Army during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord]. (1917-) Odd Borlaug. [Last living Norwegian veteran of the 1940 Battle of Høljarast Bridge during the Norwegian campaign] (1917-) Elli Laitanen [Lotta Svärd auxiliary corps nurse and cook during the Lapland War]. (1917-) Eulogio Dorta. [Last living veteran of the Nationalist Army during the Spanish Civil War] (1917-) Ronald Scott. [794 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy {RN} during the Battle of the Atlantic and last living South American Spitfire pilot to have flown during the War] (1917-) Orville Ehwegen [2nd Engineer Special Brigade of the United States Army during the Pacific War]. (1917-) Arthur-William Landry [Canadian Armed Forces during the Home Front of Canada]. (1917-) Arvi Hämäläinen [Finnish Armed Forces artillery range measurer during the Winter War and Continuation War & mine clearance worker during the aftermath of the War]. (1917-) Ferenc Bakó [Military musician of the Hungarian Music troupe, financier of the 1st Parachute Battalion, and soldier of the Royal Hungarian Army during the Eastern Front]. (1917-) Stepan Tyushkevich [Electrical engineer of the Leningrad Metal Plant, member of the Komsomol, and soldier of the Soviet Red Army during the Eastern Front]. (1917-) Brenda Milner. (1918-) Alphonse “Alfons” Tomke [Polish Armed Forces during the German Occupation of Poland and POW of the Soviet Gulag prison system]. (1918-) Joe Veselsky [Czech Resistance against the German Occupation of the Protectorate of Bohemia & Moravia]. (1918-) Max D. Liston [United States engineer, scientist, and factory munitions worker]. (1918-) Ilmari Koppinen. [Last surviving Finnish veteran of the Mai Guba attack during the Continuation War] (1918-) Herbert I. Stern. [Last living graduate of the 1941 Graduate class at West Point, major of the 325th Field Artillery Battalion of the 84th Infantry Division of the United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge, and 909th Field Artillery Battalion of the US Forces during the Western Allied invasion of Germany who helped liberate a concentration camp] (1918-) Arthur Ramshaw [8th Reconnaissance Regiment {14th Canadian Hussars} of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division of the Canadian Army during Operation Overlord/Normandy Landings, Battle of the Scheldt, Operation Veritable, Battle of Groningen, and the Western Allied invasion of Germany]. (1918-) Josef Isidoor Verbinnen [Free Belgian forces during the Western Front]. (1918-) Jean Turco [French Armed Forces during the Battle of France and POW of the German Army after the capitulation of the combined forces of the French Third Republic]. (1918-) Kurt Anclam [Heer/Wehrmacht during the European Theater]. (1918-) Mitchinson ‘Mitchie’ James [Caribbean police unit during the Battle of the Caribbean]. (1918-) Dick Lohness [United States Armed Forces]. (1918-) Florian Ozimek [United States Navy diesel mechanic of Lord Corporation]. (1918-) Emery Leger [Canadian Armed 2nd Forces]. (1918-) Aarne Ukkola [Finnish Defense Forces {Puolustusvoimat} of the Battle of Kumho during the Winter War and Operation Silver Fox & Finnish invasion of East Karelia during the Continuation War, Detached Battalion 4 of the Battle of Ilomantsi of the Svir–Petrozavodsk offensive during the Continuation War, and witness to the Moscow Armistice of 1944 that ended Finnish-Soviet hostilities]. (1918-) Josef Peer [Austrian conscript of the Heer/Wehrmacht during the Eastern Front]. (1918-) Elisabeth Waldo [All-American Youth Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist who toured South America and North America during the War years and one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood]. (1918-) Maj-Britt Håkansson [Swedish actress during the War Years who starred in films from 1939-1943]. (1918-) Robert Putnam [United States Navy during the Battle of the Mediterranean of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre]. (1918-) Glenwood Myers [United States Navy during the Pacific War]. (1918-) Joseph Passaretti [36th Infantry “Arrowhead” Division of the 133rd Field Artillery Regiment artillery specialist of the United States Army during the North African campaign, Allied invasion of Italy, Operation Dragoon, Siegfried Line campaign, and the Western Allied invasion of Germany]. (1918-) James Thomas Poteat [United States Army during the European Theater]. (1918-) Carl Lyerly [One of the last living Naval crewmates of the 1936 Indianapolis voyage of President Roosevelt’s trip to Latin America, one of the last living people to cross the newly opened Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, and United States Navy under General MacArthur’s command during the South West Pacific theatre of the Pacific War]. (1918-) Obie Young [3rd Armored “Spearhead” Division Sherman tank driver & gunner of the United States Army during the Western Allied invasion of Germany]. (1918-) Larson Wile [United States Navy petty officer of a fleet tender during the Pacific War]. (1918-) James Wimsatt [United States Army during the Italian campaign]. (1918-) Herb Weiss [United States Army radar repair technician]. (1918-) John Skeen [United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge of the European theatre]. (1918-) Taylor Howard [92nd Infantry Division/Buffalo Soldiers of the United States Army during the Battle of Garfagnana of the Gothic Line Offensive of the Italian campaign]. (1918-) Roy Sees [100th Infantry Division of the United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge]. (1918) Ernie Buist [Canadian Army during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord of the European theatre]. (1918-) Harry Arpen [West Nova Scotia Regiment of the Canadian Army during the Italian campaign]. (1918-) Sauli Kaisamatti [Finnish Armed Forces during the Winter War and Continuation War]. (1918-) Ion Banu [89th Infantry Regiment of Brașov of the Romanian Army during Operation München & Siege of Odessa, Battle of the Caucasus, and Battle of Romania during the Eastern Front] (1918-) Grigory Osminko [Soviet Red Army radio telegrapher during the Eastern Front and liberator of Moldova & the Baltic States from Nazi Germany]. (1918-) Nikolay Bagaev [Soviet Red Army during the Great Patriotic War]. (1918-) John Hemingway. [Royal Air Force {RAF} pilot of the Dunkirk evacuation & the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord of the No. 85 RAF Squadron, witness to the London Blitz by the Luftwaffe, & last surviving pilot of The Few who fought during the Battle of Britain] (1919-) Nancy Stratford. [Last surviving Attagirl of the Air Transport Auxiliary {ATA}] (1919-) Jim Miller [Second Army of the Australian forces and Royal Australian Air Force {RAAF} during the Pacific War]. (1919-) Władysław Siemaszko [27th Volhynian Infantry Division of the Home Army/Armia Krajowa against the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and survivor of the NKVD prisoner massacres during the Eastern Front]. (1919-) Klaus Obermeyer. (1919-) Justino Pires de Arruda [Brazilian Expeditionary Force {FEB}/Smoking Snakes of the Italian campaign and recipient of the Blood of Brazil Medal]. (1919-) Hugo Pedro Felisbino. [Last living Força Expedicionária Brasileira {FEB} male nurse of the Italian campaign] (1919-) José Etelvino dos Santos [Brazilian Expeditionary Force/Smoking Snakes {FEB }of the Italian campaign]. (1919-) Roy Hashimura [Executive Order 9066, United States Army, and Nuremberg Trials guard]. (1919-) Aleksander Lestan. (1919-) Jehuda Widawski [The Holocaust]. (1919-) Howard Bier [United States Army Air Forces {USAAF} plane mechanic]. (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 Armed Forces during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord and Battle of the Bulge]. (1919-) Arthur Leggett. [2/11th Battalion of the Australian Armed Forces during the Battle of Tobruk, Battle of Bardia, and last living POW of the Battle of Crete] (1919-) Morton Katz [Paratrooper commando of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion of the United States Army Air Forces {USAAF} who fought in French Algeria and French Morocco during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of Sicily, Allied invasion of France, and the Western Allied invasion of Germany]. (1919-) Hsu Li-nung [National Revolutionary Army {NRA} during the Second-Sino Japanese War]. (1919-) Valdemar DeHerrera. [515th Coast Artillery Regiment of the United States Army during the Battle of Bataan and last living American POW of the Bataan Death March] (1919-) Jozef Mierkowski [1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division of the Polish First Army during the Battle of Kolberg of the East Pomeranian offensive and the Battle of Berlin]. (1919-) Steve Melnikoff [1st Battalion of the 175th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland offensive of the Western Allied invasion of Germany, and liberator of the Dinslaken sub labor camp]. (1919-) Georges Goguin [Ardennes Light Infantry/Battalion of Chasseurs Ardennais {ChA} of the Belgian Armed Forces during the German invasion of Belgium/18 Day's Campaign and POW of the German Army after the surrender of Belgian forces]. (1919-) Jerry Hinton [United States Army during the Normandy Landings/Operation Overlord]. (1919-) Jim Ashworth [Royal Canadian Air Force {RCAF} during the Burma campaign of the Pacific Theater]. (1919-) Zdenko Premzl. [Last known living member of the Slovene Home Guard collaborationist unit during the Eastern Front]. (1919-) Martti Manninen [Blue Brigade field medic of the Army of Karelia {Karjalan armeija} sub branch of the Finnish Defense Forces of the Continuation War who served in the Finnish invasion of East Karelia and the Lapland War]. (1919-) Olli Vuorio [Finnish Defense Forces {Puolustusvoimat} during the Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus and the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive]. (1919-) Onni Ryynänen [Finnish Defense Forces {Puolustusvoimat} during the Winter War and Continuation War]. (1919-) Caren Marsh Doll [Hollywood Canteen actress & dancer and one of the last living stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood]. (1919-) Owen Filer [Ninth Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers of the British Armed Forces during the Battle of France, Battle of Belgium, Operation Dragoon, Battle of Kohima of the Burma campaign, and the South-East Asian Theater]. (1919-) Erich Rost [Heer/Wehrmacht during the European Theater]. (1919-) Eileen Bennett [British Actress during the War Years who starred in films from 1939-1943]. (1919-) Dumitru Din [Romanian Army during Operation München & Siege of Odessa of the Eastern Front]. (1919-) Ioan Beldi [Graduate of the Training Center for Military Music in Bucharest and soldier of the 6th Guards Regiment Dorobanti Mihai Viteazul of the Romanian Army during the Siege of Budapest of the Budapest offensive]. (1919-) Ilie Popa [Romanian Army during Operation München & the Siege of Odessa and cannon servant of the School of Aviation Non-Commissioned Officers during the Battle of the Caucasus of the Eastern Front]. (1919-) Ion Procopie [38th Infantry Regiment of Brăila of the Romanian Army during the Battle of the Caucasus of the Eastern Front]. (1919-) Serafim Demidov [Soviet Red Army during the Great Patriotic War]. (1919-) Bolek Ostrowski. [Last living member of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade during the Battle of Arnhem and last living Polish veteran to have fought in Operation Market Garden] (1919-) Wayne Perry [United States Army during the European theatre]. (1919-) 1 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Planetist 135 Posted 15 hours ago Olli Vuorio, mentioned on the above list, is dead at 105. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
