Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader interviewed Drake about his experience at Pearl Harbor in December 2016. He explained he was surprised Japan was able to pull off the attack and said the ...

"To us, he was more than a hero," Vaughn P. Drake Jr.'s son said. 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 ...

7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106 ... Roosevelt to ask Congress to declare war on Japan, which marked the United States' entry into World War II. In a famous speech ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who was on Oahu during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has died, according to an obituary. At 106, Drake was believed to be the oldest known U.S ...