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Many of those who came out on Monday to honor those who died while serving our country told ABC7 there is a value in sharing their stories, not just for Memorial Day, but for the next generation ...
The Brewers then presented Miklavcic with a special flag from the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. "I feel like I should live to be 106 so I can do it over again," said Miklavcic.
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 ...
Jessie A. Mahaffey, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, died March 1 in Alexandria, La., at the age of 102.
William “Bill” Pratt was the last of Fresno’s Pearl Harbor survivors. He was a 19-year-old sailor on the USS Nevada when the ship was attacked Dec. 7, 1941.
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, has died at the age of 105. Upton died Wednesday at a Los Gatos, Calif., hospital. He had pneumonia, Kathleen Farley, the Califo… ...
Gene died in 2018. She was 97. Upton remained an active member of his local chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Farley said. His last visit to Pearl Harbor was in 2019.
With his death, only 15 remain, according to a tally kept by the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. On Dec. 7, 1941, Upton, then a 22-year-old petty officer, was starting his day ...
Lewis Central cheerleaders Addie Taylor, left, and Gabby Rose, who took part in the annual Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade in Hawaii, visited the U.S.S. Missouri during their weeklong trip there.
In yesterday’s column, I noted a headline: “Two Pearl Harbor survivors, ages 104 and 102, return to Hawaii to honor those killed in 1941 attack.” I said (prosaically), “Pretty soon, they ...
What’d I do? I got caught in the war.” One of the country’s last survivors of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Fernandez died Wednesday in Lodi, Calif. He was 100.
Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941.