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World's Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor Dies At 106

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Vaughn P. Drake Jr., one of the oldest survivors of the December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, passed away on April 7, 2025, at the age of 106. At just 23 years old, Drake was an Army engineer at the Kaneohe Naval Air Station in Hawaii when Japanese forces launched their surprise attack. YouTube / WKYT “We thought it was a drill at first,” Drake recalled in a 2016 interview. “Then we saw the bombs and the smoke. We knew it was real.” His experie…
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World War Wings broke the news in on Friday, April 18, 2025.
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