William Henry Pratt was 19 and served on the USS Nevada during the 1941 attack. His brother Basil Pratt was also on the ship ...
Higgins died at home in Bend ... visit schools to share stories about Pearl Harbor, World War II and the Great Depression. Norton said he wanted to teach people history so they wouldn’t repeat ...
AUSTIN BOUCHER / U.S. ARMY / OCT. 7 Members of the Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency walk beside a casket during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. At least 163 ...
− The oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attacks died ... The attacks killed 2,403 American service members and civilians. Over 1,000 people were injured. It spurred the U.S. to enter ...
more than 80 years after the Massachusetts native was killed when Japan launched its Dec. 7, 1941, attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii.
7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 97 years old ... “One of Donald’s final wishes was that people remember Pearl Harbor and the men aboard the USS Arizona.” ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating ... “We lost a lot of good people, you know.
a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the Japanese bombing that thrust the U.S. into World War ...
About 2,400 Americans died in the attack that brought the ... He said the veterans who experienced the attack would want people to remember Pearl Harbor and to keep America alert.
Few people may now remember the name Mitsuo ... including meeting with family members of those killed at Pearl Harbor on his command,” Koketsu said. “His autobiography is so valuable because ...
HONOLULU — Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating ... “We lost a lot of good people, you know. They didn’t do ...
SALINAS, Calif. − The oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attacks died Christmas morning. Warren “Red” Upton, of San Jose, California, was also the last living survivor of the USS Utah, which ...