A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from Kentucky was 23 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on the US Pa… ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Kentucky man known as the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. A release says Vaughn P. Drake Jr. was one of the last known survivors of the attack on ...

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family.

On December 7, 1941, as chaos erupted at Pearl Harbor, two U.S. pilots - George Welch and Kenneth Taylor - raced to their P-40 Warhawks and took to the skies.

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who was born in Winchester, Ky., was believed to be the oldest survivor of Pearl Harbor. He died April 7, 2025 at the age of 106.

Updated: Apr 13, 2025 / 05:08 PM EDT LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who was on Oahu during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has died, according to an obituary.

USS Oklahoma Ceremony: Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. at USS Oklahoma Memorial USS Arizona Live Dive: Dec. 9 at noon at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. For more information on the events, click here.