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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.
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… ...
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. Drake passed away on April 7 ...
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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., 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.
The oldest known survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor died this week. Vaughn P. Drake, Jr. was 106. Drake passed away on April 7, in his home in Kentucky. He was born Nov. 6, 1918 in Winchester ...
The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified decades later. Through the military’s process of returning lost loved ones to their families, Svoboda said, she’d ...
His remains were identified in November, officials said, nearly 82 years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, and six years after the D.P.A.A ...