Bronze Star, Purple Heart Recipient Dick Hermann, Sole Survivor of Vietnam River Attack, Dies at 78
From the battlefields of the Vietnam War to wrangling horses at a rodeo, Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient Dick Hermann was a man who lived outside the box. His death last week at the age of 78 is a loss among Vietnam veterans who are dwindling in numbers, and leaves a void among his […]
Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor is Keeping Memory of the Surprise Bombing Alive at 106
CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country’s oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing was far below deck helping repair one the boilers of the USS St. Louis. Freeman Johnson, who turned 106 in March, never witnessed the surprise attack. He never heard his shipmates firing antiaircraft guns […]
Oldest Known Pearl Harbor Survivor Dies at 106
Vaughn Drake Jr., an esteemed Central Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, died last week. Drake died April 7 at the age of 106, according to a news release from the nonprofit Affinity Media and Public Relations announcing his death. His visitation is Thursday at the Milward […]
Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor Herb Elfring Dies at 102
Pearl Harbor attack survivor Herbert Elfring died Saturday in Michigan at age 102. His death was announced by Michigan-based One Stop Veteran Resources, an organization he helped establish, in a Facebook post Sunday that said, “After a brief and sudden illness, Herb went up to Heaven. … His stories of Pearl Harbor were not just […]