List of notable surviving veterans of World War II
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This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945). A total of 191 veterans are listed.
A[edit]
11 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Daniel Abraham[1] | August 15, 1924 | Businessman, philanthropist | US Army[2] |  United States
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| Valdas Adamkus | November 3, 1926 | President of Lithuania | Lithuanian resistance |  Lithuania
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| Lee Adams | August 14, 1924 | Musician | US Army | United States
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| Marshall Allen | May 25, 1924 | Musician | US Army | United States
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| Walter Althammer | March 12, 1928 | Politician | Heer |  Germany
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| Aksel Andersen | 1924/1925 (age 99–100) | Accused of War Crimes by SWC | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Valérie André | April 21, 1922 | General, neurosurgeon, aviator | French Resistance |  Free France
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| Ray Anthony | January 20, 1922 | Bandleader and trumpeter | US Navy | United States
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| George Ariyoshi | March 12, 1926 | Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986) | US Army | United States
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| Stanisław Aronson | May 6, 1925 | Order of Polonia Restituta recipient | Home Army |  Poland
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| Austin Asche | November 28, 1925 | Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge | Royal Australian Air Force |  Australia
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B[edit]
18 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vincent Ball | December 4, 1923 | Actor | Royal Australian Air Force | Australia
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| Karlheinz Bauer | April 24, 1928 | Former head of Bauer Group | Heer | Germany
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| William J. Bauer | September 15, 1926 | Federal judge | US Army | United States
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| V.J. Bella | July 29, 1927 | American politician | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Alan Bergman | September 11, 1925 | Songwriter | US Army | United States
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| Rasammah Bhupalan | May 1, 1927 | Social activist | Indian National Army |  Azad Hind
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| Walter Bingham | January 5, 1924 | Journalist | British Army |  United Kingdom
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| Benjamin B. Blackburn | February 14, 1927 | Politician; U.S. Representative of Georgia (1967–1975) | US Navy | United States
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| Harry Blank | May 24, 1925 | Politician | Canadian Army |  Canada
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| Jacques Borker | September 29, 1922 | Artist | French Resistance | Free France
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| Hugo Broch | January 6, 1922 | World War II flying ace | Luftwaffe | Germany
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| Victor Brombert | November 11, 1923 | Professor | US Army | United States
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| Mel Brooks | June 28, 1926 | Director, actor, producer | US Army, Battle of the Bulge | United States
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| Stephen Brown | October 3, 1924 | Judge | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve | United Kingdom
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| Walt Brown | July 28, 1926 | Politician | US Navy | United States
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| Andrew Bruce | February 17, 1924 | 11th Earl of Elgin | British Army, Scots Guards | United Kingdom
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| Arthur E. Bryson | October 7, 1925 | Control theorist | US Navy | United States
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| Charles Burrell | October 4, 1920 | Musician | US Navy | United States
|
C[edit]
12 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Carnesecca | May 1, 1925 | Basketball coach | US Coast Guard | United States
|
| Gerard Caris | March 20, 1925 | Artist | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Jimmy Carter | October 1, 1924 | Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) and 39th U.S. President | US Navy | United States
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| Patrick Skene Catling | February 14, 1925 | Journalist, author | Royal Canadian Air Force | Canada
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| Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher | April 25, 1925 | Businessman, trade unionist, tax official | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom
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| John B. Cobb | February 9, 1925 | Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist | US Army | United States
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| Marthe Cohn | April 13, 1920 | Author, spy | French Army |  France
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| Ena Collymore-Woodstock | September 10, 1917 | Solicitor, magistrate | Auxiliary Territorial Service | United Kingdom
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| Tom Copeland | April 17, 1924 | Politician | US Army | United States
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| John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. | September 29, 1925 | Federal judge | US Army | United States
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| John Cruickshank | May 20, 1920 | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | British Army Royal Air Force |
United Kingdom
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| Iris Cummings | December 21, 1920 | Olympic swimmer, Aviator | Women Airforce Service Pilots | United States
|
D[edit]
11 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyllis Dalton | October 16, 1925 | Costume designer | Women's Royal Naval Service | United Kingdom
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| Louis Danziger | November 17, 1923 | Graphic designer, professor | US Army | United States
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| Klaus von Dohnanyi | June 23, 1928 | Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg | Volkssturm | Germany
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| Charles Dolan | October 16, 1926 | Businessman, Philanthropist | US Army Air Force | United States
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| Lou Donaldson | November 1, 1926 | Musician | US Navy | United States
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| William I. Donnermeyer Sr. | September 19, 1924 | Politician | US Navy | United States
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| Bruce L. Douglas | July 14, 1925 | Politician | US Navy | United States
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| Karl-Heinz Drews | December 22, 1929 | General | Volkssturm Wehrmacht |
Germany
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| Roy Drinkard | July 12, 1920 | Businessman | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Charles C. Droz | July 8, 1924 | Politician | US Army | United States
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| Patrick Duffy | June 17, 1920 | President of the NATO Assembly | Fleet Air Arm | United Kingdom
|
E[edit]
3 veterans
| Birth | Notability | Service | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Einwag | March 18, 1928 | Lawyer | Heer | Germany
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| Juan Ponce Enrile | February 14, 1924 | Lawyer | Philippine Navy |  Philippines
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| Anthony Eyton | May 17, 1923 | Artist | British Army | United Kingdom
|
F[edit]
8 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josef-Gerhard Farkas | July 13, 1929 | Hungariologist | Volkssturm | Germany
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| Edward Field | June 7, 1924 | Poet & author | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Sergio Flamigni | October 22, 1925 | Politician & writer | Italian Resistance |  Italian Resistance
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| Loretta Ford | December 28, 1920 | Nurse, Academic | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Wieland Förster | February 12, 1930 | Painter, writer | Volkssturm | Germany
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| John S. Foster Jr. | September 18, 1922 | Physicist | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| James Clayton Flowers | December 25, 1915 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Russell Freeburg | March 4, 1923 | Editor of the Chicago Tribune | US Army | United States
|
G[edit]
13 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnald Gabriel | May 31, 1925 | Conductor of the US Air Force Band | US Army | United States
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| Samuel Rhea Gammon III | January 22, 1924 | Ambassador | US Army | United States
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| Bernard Garfield | March 27, 1924 | Bassoonist | US Army | United States
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| Stanley Michael Gartler | June 9, 1923 | Biologist & geneticist | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Ernst Gerhardt | September 10, 1921 | Politician | Kriegsmarine | Germany
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| Eddie Germano | November 15, 1924 | Cartoonist | US Army | United States
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| Roy Gibson | July 4, 1924 | Aerospace engineer | British Army | United Kingdom
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| I. Leo Glasser | April 6, 1924 | Judge | US Army | United States
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| René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | Bishop | Flying Tigers | United States
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| Bill Grayden | August 5, 1920 | Politician | Australian Army | Australia
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| Bill Greason | September 3, 1924 | Baseball player | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Maurice R. Greenberg | May 4, 1925 | CEO of American International Group (1967–2005) | US Army | United States
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| Frank J. Guarini | August 20, 1924 | Politician; U.S. Representative of New Jersey (1979–1993) | US Navy | United States
|
H[edit]
14 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jürgen Habermas | June 18, 1929 | Philosopher; sociologist | Luftwaffenhelfer | Germany
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| G. Homer Harding | December 7, 1925 | Politician | US Army | United States
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| George Hardy | June 8, 1925 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Robert Harlow | November 19, 1923 | Writer, academic | Royal Canadian Air Force | Canada
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| Ted Hartley | November 6, 1924 | Pilot, banker, actor, film producer | US Navy | United States
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| Helmut Hauptmann | March 12, 1928 | Writer | Luftwaffenhelfer | Germany
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| Eric Heath | November 28, 1923 | Artist | Royal New Zealand Air Force |  New Zealand
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| John Hemingway | July 17, 1919 | Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom
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| Józef Hen | November 8, 1923 | Writer | Polish People's Army | Poland
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| Werner Henninger | April 7, 1929 | Admiral | Volkssturm | Germany
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| Cyril Hilsum | May 17, 1925 | Physicist, academic | Royal Navy | United Kingdom
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| Earl Holliman | September 11, 1928 | Actor | US Navy | United States
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| Tom Hughes | November 26, 1923 | Politician | Royal Australian Air Force | Australia
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| Evan Hultman | July 15, 1925 | Politician | US Army | United States
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I[edit]
1 veteran
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Robert Ignatius | November 11, 1920 | Government official | US Navy | United States
|
J[edit]
4 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen A. Jarislowsky | September 9, 1925 | Businessman, billionaire | US Army | United States
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| Dub Jones | December 29, 1924 | American football player | US Navy | United States
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| George Joseph | September 11, 1921 | Founder of Mercury Insurance Group | US Army | United States
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| George Judge | May 2, 1925 | Professor, econometrician | US Army Air Forces | United States
|
K[edit]
4 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney Kentridge | November 5, 1922 | Lawyer, judge | South African Army |  South Africa
|
| Elisabeth Kirkby | January 26, 1921 | Actress, writer, broadcaster | Auxiliary Territorial Service | United Kingdom
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| Helma Kissner | December 23, 1923 | Accused of war crimes by SWC | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Hermann Klenner | January 5, 1926 | Lawyer | Heer | Germany
|
L[edit]
10 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horst Langes | December 2, 1928 | Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Peter Lax | May 1, 1926 | Mathematician | US Navy | United States
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| Jean Lee | July 26, 1924 | Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF | Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division | Canada
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| James Lees | February 14, 1924 | Maritime expert, curator | Royal Navy British Merchant Navy |
United Kingdom
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| Marv Levy | August 3, 1925 | Football coach | US Army Air Corps | United States
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| Guenter Lewy | August 22, 1923 | Author, professor | British Army | United Kingdom
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| Ernst Löschner | June 20, 1929 | Conductor | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Dick Lucas | September 10, 1925 | Anglican minister | Royal Navy | United Kingdom
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| William R. Lucas | March 1, 1922 | Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center | US Navy | United States
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| Bernt H. Lund | August 14, 1924 | Civil servant, diplomat, politician | Norwegian resistance movement |  Norway
|
M[edit]
24 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray Marshall | August 22, 1928 | US Secretary of Labor (1977–1981) | US Navy | United States
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| Gordon Eugene Martin | August 22, 1925 | Physicist, author | US Navy | United States
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| Ivan Martynushkin | December 23, 1923 | Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp | Red Army |  Soviet Union
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| Anthony Mason | April 21, 1925 | Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | Australia
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| Miloslav Masopust | September 26, 1924 | General | 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR |  Czechoslovakia
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| Joseph Matarazzo | November 12, 1925 | Psychologist | US Navy | United States
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| Robert D. Maurer | July 20, 1924 | Physicist | US Army | United States
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| Charlie Maxwell | April 8, 1927 | Baseball Player | US Army | United States
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| Robert McGinnis | February 3, 1926 | Artist, illustrator | US Merchant Marine | United States
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| Francis Terry McNamara | November 2, 1927 | Diplomat | US Navy | United States
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| Kirke Mechem | August 16, 1925 | Composer | US Army | United States
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| Bill Mercer | February 13, 1926 | Sportscaster, educator, & author | US Navy | United States
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| Harald Metzkes | January 23, 1929 | Painter | Heer | Germany
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| Ed Mickelson | September 9, 1926 | Baseball player | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| J. William Middendorf | September 22, 1924 | Diplomat & politician | US Navy | United States
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| Jim Miller | May 30, 1919 | Australian rules football player | Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force |
Australia
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| John H. Miller | April 16, 1925 | General | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Gwen Moffat | July 3, 1924 | Climber, writer | Auxiliary Territorial Service | United Kingdom
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| Henry Moore | November 2, 1923 | Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf | British Army British Indian Army |
United Kingdom British India
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| Shigehiro Mori | January 7, 1928 | General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986–1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983–1986) | Imperial Japanese Army |  Japan
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| Edgar Morin | July 8, 1921 | Philosopher & sociologist | French Resistance | Free France
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| Georg Müller | October 1, 1930 | Mineralogist | Hitlerjugend | Germany
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| Tomiichi Murayama | March 3, 1924 | Japanese Prime Minister | Imperial Japanese Army | Japan
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| David H. Murdock | April 11, 1923 | Billionaire & businessman | US Army | United States
|
N[edit]
5 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucien Nedzi | May 28, 1925 | Politician; U.S. Representative of Michigan (1961–1981) | US Army | United States
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| Joe Negri | June 10, 1926 | Musician, educator | US Army | United States
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| Frederick M. Nicholas | May 30, 1920 | Lawyer | US Army | United States
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| Kurt Nier | July 23, 1927 | Diplomat | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| George Nigh | June 9, 1927 | Politician; 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987) | US Navy | United States
|
O[edit]
3 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jiro Ono | October 27, 1925 | Sushi Chef | Japanese Imperial Army | Japan
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| Edward Ormondroyd | October 8, 1925 | Author | US Navy | United States
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| Donald Owens | September 12, 1926 | General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene | US Army | United States
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P[edit]
3 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Parsonnet | August 29, 1924 | Surgeon | US Navy Reserve | United States
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| Johnny Pate | December 5, 1923 | Bass player & arranger | US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band | United States
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| John Peoples | August 26, 1926 | President of Jackson State University | US Marine Corps | United States
|
R[edit]
9 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinz Rafoth | January 6, 1923 | Military officer | Heer | Germany
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| Hans Reichelt | March 30, 1925 | Politician in the GDR | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Madeleine Riffaud | August 23, 1924 | Poet, journalist, & war correspondent | French Resistance | Free France
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| Basil Rigg | August 12, 1926 | Cricket player | Australian Army | Australia
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| Fred Risser | May 5, 1927 | Politician | US Navy | United States
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| John Roberts | April 4, 1924 | Admiral | Royal Navy | United Kingdom
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| Arthur Rock | August 19, 1926 | Businessman, investor | US Army | United States
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| Richard Rohmer | January 24, 1924 | Military writer; Ultimatum | Royal Canadian Air Force | Canada
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| Philip Ruppe | September 29, 1926 | Politician; U.S. Representative of Michigan (1967–1979) | V-12 Navy College Training Program | United States
|
S[edit]
20 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howard F. Sachs | September 13, 1925 | Judge | US Navy | United States
|
| Frank Saucier | May 28, 1926 | Baseball player | US Navy | United States
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| Norman Scarth | October 1925 (age 99) | Blogger & political candidate | Royal Navy | United Kingdom
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| Art Schallock | April 25, 1924 | Baseball player | US Navy[3] | United States
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| Rolf Schimpf | November 14, 1924 | German television actor | Heer | Germany
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| Walter Franz Schleser | October 25, 1930 | Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten | Volkssturm | Germany
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| Helmut Schlesinger | September 4, 1924 | President of the Deutsche Bundesbank | Heer | Germany
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| Wolfgang Schumann | June 5, 1929 | Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate | Wehrmacht | Germany
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| Sen Sōshitsu XV | April 19, 1923 | Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school | Imperial Japanese Navy | Japan
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| Ralph Senensky[4] | May 1, 1923 | TV director & writer | US Army | United States
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| Doc Severinsen | July 7, 1927 | Trumpeter | US Army | United States
|
| Bobby Shantz | September 26, 1925 | Baseball player | US Army | United States
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| Charles Norman Shay | June 27, 1924 | Penobscot tribal elder, writer | US Army | United States
|
| Robert G. Shulman | March 3, 1924 | Biophysicist | US Navy | United States
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| Władysław Siemaszko | June 8, 1919 | Author, Lawyer | Home Army | Poland
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| Edward H. Sims | May 29, 1923 | Author | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Richard T. Spooner | September 10, 1925 | Author | US Marine Corps | United States
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| Irena Stankiewicz | February 28, 1925 | Graphic artist | Home Army | Poland
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| Heinz Stöcker | January 22, 1929 | General | Volkssturm | Germany
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| Fritz Streletz | September 28, 1926 | General | Wehrmacht | Germany
|
T[edit]
4 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Tinniswood | August 26, 1912 | Supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living man | British Army | United Kingdom
|
| Dan Tolkowsky | January 17, 1921 | Commander of the Israeli Air Force | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom
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| Aldo Tortorella | July 10, 1926 | Journalist & politician | Italian Resistance | Italian Resistance
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| James Wesley Turpin | December 18, 1927 | Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist | US Navy | United States
|
V[edit]
3 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dick Van Dyke | December 13, 1925 | Actor and comedian | US Army Air Corps | United States
|
| Enrico Vanzini | November 18, 1922 | Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando | Royal Italian Army |  Italy
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| Thomas Franklin Vaughns | July 12, 1920 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | United States
|
W[edit]
7 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Wahler | December 10, 1921 | Accused of war crimes by SWC | Einsatzgruppe | Germany
|
| Joe Wallach | September 10, 1923 | Businessman | US Army | United States
|
| William H. Webster | March 26, 1924 | 3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council | US Navy | United States
|
| G. William Whitehurst | March 12, 1925 | Politician; U.S. Representative of Virginia (1969–1987) | US Navy | United States
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| Charley Winner | July 2, 1924 | Football player | US Army Air Forces | United States
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| Woody Woodbury | February 9, 1924 | Comedian & actor | US Marine Corps | United States
|
| Oscar Wyatt | July 11, 1924 | Businessman | US Army Air Corps | United States
|
Y[edit]
1 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Yeaman | December 16, 1924 | Conservationist | Women Airforce Service Pilots | United States
|
Z[edit]
3 veterans
| Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin B. Zimmerman | June 20, 1923 | Musicologist, conductor | US Army | United States
|
| Zou Jiahua | October 1926 (age 98) | Politician | National Revolutionary Army |  Republic of China
|
| Leszek Żukowski | February 11, 1929 | President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers | Gray Ranks | Poland
|
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "S. Daniel Abraham, $1.5 billion – In Photos: The 17 Richest Living Veterans". Forbes. July 25, 2011. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
- ↑ Broward Sun Sentinel: "S. Daniel Abraham: Philanthropist and peace maker" by Shani McManus April 20, 2010
- ↑ Baseball in Wartime
- ↑ "NARA – AAD – Display Full Records – Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 – 1946 (Reserve Corps Records)". Aad.archives.gov. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
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