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This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945). A total of 200 veterans are listed.
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[edit]11 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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S. Daniel Abraham[1] | August 15, 1924 | Businessman, philanthropist | US Army[2] | ![]() |
Valdas Adamkus | November 3, 1926 | President of Lithuania | Lithuanian resistance | ![]() |
Lee Adams | August 14, 1924 | Musician | US Army | ![]() |
Marshall Allen | May 25, 1924 | Musician | US Army | ![]() |
Walter Althammer | March 12, 1928 | Politician | Heer | ![]() |
Aksel Andersen | 1924 or 1925 (age 99–100) | Accused of War Crimes by SWC | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Valérie André | April 21, 1922 | General, neurosurgeon, aviator | French Resistance | ![]() |
Ray Anthony | January 20, 1922 | Bandleader and trumpeter | US Navy | ![]() |
George Ariyoshi | March 12, 1926 | Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986) | US Army | ![]() |
Stanisław Aronson | May 6, 1925 | Order of Polonia Restituta recipient | Home Army | ![]() |
Austin Asche | November 28, 1925 | Administrator of the Northern Territory, judge | Royal Australian Air Force | ![]() |
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[edit]18 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Vincent Ball | December 4, 1923 | Actor | Royal Australian Air Force | ![]() |
Karlheinz Bauer | April 24, 1928 | Former head of Bauer Group | Heer | ![]() |
William J. Bauer | September 15, 1926 | Federal judge | US Army | ![]() |
V.J. Bella | July 29, 1927 | American politician | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Alan Bergman | September 11, 1925 | Songwriter | US Army | ![]() |
Rasammah Bhupalan | May 1, 1927 | Social activist | Indian National Army | ![]() |
Walter Bingham | January 5, 1924 | Journalist | British Army | ![]() |
Benjamin B. Blackburn | February 14, 1927 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Harry Blank | May 24, 1925 | Politician | Canadian Army | ![]() |
Jacques Borker | September 29, 1922 | Artist | French Resistance | ![]() |
Hugo Broch | January 6, 1922 | World War II flying ace | Luftwaffe | ![]() |
Victor Brombert | November 11, 1923 | Professor | US Army | ![]() |
Mel Brooks | June 28, 1926 | Director, actor, producer | US Army, Battle of the Bulge | ![]() |
Stephen Brown | October 3, 1924 | Judge | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve | ![]() |
Walt Brown | July 28, 1926 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Andrew Bruce | February 17, 1924 | 11th Earl of Elgin | British Army, Scots Guards | ![]() |
Arthur E. Bryson | October 7, 1925 | Control theorist | US Navy | ![]() |
Charles Burrell | October 4, 1920 | Musician | US Navy | ![]() |
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[edit]14 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Lou Carnesecca | May 1, 1925 | Basketball coach | US Coast Guard | ![]() |
Gerard Caris | March 20, 1925 | Artist | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Jimmy Carter | October 1, 1924 | 39th U.S. President | US Navy | ![]() |
Patrick Skene Catling | February 14, 1925 | Journalist, author | Royal Canadian Air Force | ![]() |
Nadia Cattouse | November 2, 1924 | Actress, singer, songwriter | Auxiliary Territorial Service | ![]() |
Robert A. Chase | January 6, 1923 | Surgeon, professor | US Army | ![]() |
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher | April 25, 1925 | Businessman, trade unionist, tax official | Royal Air Force | ![]() |
John B. Cobb | February 9, 1925 | Theologian, philosopher, environmentalist | US Army | ![]() |
Marthe Cohn | April 13, 1920 | Author, spy | French Army | ![]() |
Ena Collymore-Woodstock | September 10, 1917 | Solicitor, magistrate | Auxiliary Territorial Service | ![]() |
Tom Copeland | April 17, 1924 | Politician | US Army | ![]() |
John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. | September 29, 1925 | Federal judge | US Army | ![]() |
John Cruickshank | May 20, 1920 | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | British Army Royal Air Force |
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Iris Cummings | December 21, 1920 | Olympic swimmer, Aviator | Women Airforce Service Pilots | ![]() |
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[edit]12 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Phyllis Dalton | October 16, 1925 | Costume designer | Women's Royal Naval Service | ![]() |
Louis Danziger | November 17, 1923 | Graphic designer, professor | US Army | ![]() |
Klaus von Dohnanyi | June 23, 1928 | Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg | Volkssturm | ![]() |
Charles Dolan | October 16, 1926 | Businessman, Philanthropist | US Army Air Force | ![]() |
Lou Donaldson | November 1, 1926 | Musician | US Navy | ![]() |
William I. Donnermeyer Sr. | September 19, 1924 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Bruce L. Douglas | July 14, 1925 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Karl-Heinz Drews | December 22, 1929 | General | Volkssturm Wehrmacht |
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Roy Drinkard | July 12, 1920 | Businessman | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Charles C. Droz | July 8, 1924 | Politician | US Army | ![]() |
Patrick Duffy | June 17, 1920 | President of the NATO Assembly | Fleet Air Arm | ![]() |
Winfield Dunn | July 1, 1927 | Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975) | US Navy | ![]() |
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[edit]4 veterans
Birth | Notability | Service | Country | |
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Alfred Einwag | March 18, 1928 | Lawyer | Heer | ![]() |
Juan Ponce Enrile | February 14, 1924 | Lawyer | Philippine Navy | ![]() |
Daniel J. Evans | October 16, 1925 | Governor of Washington (1965–1977) and U.S. Senator (1983–1989) | US Navy | ![]() |
Anthony Eyton | May 17, 1923 | Artist | British Army | ![]() |
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[edit]8 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Josef-Gerhard Farkas | July 13, 1929 | Hungariologist | Volkssturm | ![]() |
Edward Field | June 7, 1924 | Poet & author | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Sergio Flamigni | October 22, 1925 | Politician & writer | Italian Resistance | ![]() |
Loretta Ford | December 28, 1920 | Nurse, Academic | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Wieland Förster | February 12, 1930 | Painter, writer | Volkssturm | ![]() |
John S. Foster Jr. | September 18, 1922 | Physicist | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
James Clayton Flowers | December 25, 1915 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Russell Freeburg | March 4, 1923 | Editor of the Chicago Tribune | US Army | ![]() |
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[edit]14 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Arnald Gabriel | May 31, 1925 | Conductor of the US Air Force Band | US Army | ![]() |
Samuel Rhea Gammon III | January 22, 1924 | Ambassador | US Army | ![]() |
Bernard Garfield | March 27, 1924 | Bassoonist | US Army | ![]() |
Stanley Michael Gartler | June 9, 1923 | Biologist & geneticist | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Ernst Gerhardt | September 10, 1921 | Politician | Kriegsmarine | ![]() |
Eddie Germano | November 15, 1924 | Cartoonist | US Army | ![]() |
Roy Gibson | July 4, 1924 | Aerospace engineer | British Army | ![]() |
I. Leo Glasser | April 6, 1924 | Judge | US Army | ![]() |
René Henry Gracida | June 9, 1923 | Bishop | Flying Tigers | ![]() |
Bill Grayden | August 5, 1920 | Politician | Australian Army | ![]() |
Bill Greason | September 3, 1924 | Baseball player | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Peter Green | December 22, 1924 | Historian | Royal Air Force | ![]() |
Maurice R. Greenberg | May 4, 1925 | CEO of American International Group (1967–2005) | US Army | ![]() |
Frank J. Guarini | August 20, 1924 | Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979–1993) | US Navy | ![]() |
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[edit]14 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Jürgen Habermas | June 18, 1929 | Philosopher; sociologist | Luftwaffenhelfer | ![]() |
G. Homer Harding | December 7, 1925 | Politician | US Army | ![]() |
George Hardy | June 8, 1925 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Robert Harlow | November 19, 1923 | Writer, academic | Royal Canadian Air Force | ![]() |
Ted Hartley | November 6, 1924 | Pilot, banker, actor, film producer | US Navy | ![]() |
Helmut Hauptmann | March 12, 1928 | Writer | Luftwaffenhelfer | ![]() |
Eric Heath | November 28, 1923 | Artist | Royal New Zealand Air Force | ![]() |
John Hemingway | July 17, 1919 | Pilot, last surviving member of "The Few" from the Battle of Britain | Royal Air Force | ![]() |
Józef Hen | November 8, 1923 | Writer | Polish People's Army | ![]() |
Werner Henninger | April 7, 1929 | Admiral | Volkssturm | ![]() |
Cyril Hilsum | May 17, 1925 | Physicist, academic | Royal Navy | ![]() |
Earl Holliman | September 11, 1928 | Actor | US Navy | ![]() |
Tom Hughes | November 26, 1923 | Politician | Royal Australian Air Force | ![]() |
Evan Hultman | July 15, 1925 | Politician | US Army | ![]() |
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[edit]1 veteran
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Paul Robert Ignatius | November 11, 1920 | Government official | US Navy | ![]() |
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[edit]4 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Stephen A. Jarislowsky | September 9, 1925 | Businessman, billionaire | US Army | ![]() |
Dub Jones | December 29, 1924 | American football player | US Navy | ![]() |
George Joseph | September 11, 1921 | Founder of Mercury Insurance Group | US Army | ![]() |
George Judge | May 2, 1925 | Professor, econometrician | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
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[edit]4 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Sydney Kentridge | November 5, 1922 | Lawyer, judge | South African Army | ![]() |
Elisabeth Kirkby | January 26, 1921 | Actress, writer, broadcaster | Auxiliary Territorial Service | ![]() |
Helma Kissner | December 23, 1923 | Accused of war crimes by SWC | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Hermann Klenner | January 5, 1926 | Lawyer | Heer | ![]() |
L
[edit]10 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Horst Langes | December 2, 1928 | Member of state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Peter Lax | May 1, 1926 | Mathematician | US Navy | ![]() |
Jean Lee | July 26, 1924 | Only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in RCAF | Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division | ![]() |
James Lees | February 14, 1924 | Maritime expert, curator | Royal Navy British Merchant Navy |
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Marv Levy | August 3, 1925 | Football coach | US Army Air Corps | ![]() |
Guenter Lewy | August 22, 1923 | Author, professor | British Army | ![]() |
Ernst Löschner | June 20, 1929 | Conductor | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Dick Lucas | September 10, 1925 | Anglican minister | Royal Navy | ![]() |
William R. Lucas | March 1, 1922 | Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center | US Navy | ![]() |
Bernt H. Lund | August 14, 1924 | Civil servant, diplomat, politician | Norwegian resistance movement | ![]() |
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[edit]26 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Ray Marshall | August 22, 1928 | US Secretary of Labor (1977–1981) | US Navy | ![]() |
Gordon Eugene Martin | August 22, 1925 | Physicist, author | US Navy | ![]() |
Ivan Martynushkin | December 23, 1923 | Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp | Red Army | ![]() |
Anthony Mason | April 21, 1925 | Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia | Royal Australian Air Force | ![]() |
Miloslav Masopust | September 26, 1924 | General | 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the USSR | ![]() |
Joseph Matarazzo | November 12, 1925 | Psychologist | US Navy | ![]() |
Robert D. Maurer | July 20, 1924 | Physicist | US Army | ![]() |
Charlie Maxwell | April 8, 1927 | Baseball Player | US Army | ![]() |
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow | March 20, 1921 | Director-general of UNESCO (1974–1987) | French Army Free French Army French Air Force |
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Robert McGinnis | February 3, 1926 | Artist, illustrator | US Merchant Marine | ![]() |
Francis Terry McNamara | November 2, 1927 | Diplomat | US Navy | ![]() |
Kirke Mechem | August 16, 1925 | Composer | US Army | ![]() |
Bill Mercer | February 13, 1926 | Sportscaster, educator, & author | US Navy | ![]() |
Harald Metzkes | January 23, 1929 | Painter | Heer | ![]() |
Ed Mickelson | September 9, 1926 | Baseball player | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
J. William Middendorf | September 22, 1924 | Diplomat & politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Jim Miller | May 30, 1919 | Australian rules football player | Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force |
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John H. Miller | April 16, 1925 | General | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Gwen Moffat | July 3, 1924 | Climber, writer | Auxiliary Territorial Service | ![]() |
Henry Moore | November 2, 1923 | Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf | British Army British Indian Army |
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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 | ![]() |
Edgar Morin | July 8, 1921 | Philosopher & sociologist | French Resistance | ![]() |
Georg Müller | October 1, 1930 | Mineralogist | Hitlerjugend | ![]() |
Tomiichi Murayama | March 3, 1924 | Japanese Prime Minister | Imperial Japanese Army | ![]() |
David H. Murdock | April 11, 1923 | Billionaire & businessman | US Army | ![]() |
David Musuguri | January 4, 1920 | Chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (1980–1988) | British Army | ![]() |
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[edit]6 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Lucien Nedzi | May 28, 1925 | Politician | US Army | ![]() |
Joe Negri | June 10, 1926 | Musician, educator | US Army | ![]() |
Frederick M. Nicholas | May 30, 1920 | Lawyer | US Army | ![]() |
Kurt Nier | July 23, 1927 | Diplomat | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
George Nigh | June 9, 1927 | Politician; 17th and 22nd governor of Oklahoma (1963, 1979–1987) | US Navy | ![]() |
Peter L. Nissen | January 8, 1924 | Aviator and businessman | Norwegian resistance movement Royal Norwegian Air Force |
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[edit]3 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Jiro Ono | October 27, 1925 | Sushi Chef | Japanese Imperial Army | ![]() |
Edward Ormondroyd | October 8, 1925 | Author | US Navy | ![]() |
Donald Owens | September 12, 1926 | General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene | US Army | ![]() |
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[edit]3 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Victor Parsonnet | August 29, 1924 | Surgeon | US Navy Reserve | ![]() |
Johnny Pate | December 5, 1923 | Bass player & arranger | US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band | ![]() |
John Peoples | August 26, 1926 | President of Jackson State University | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
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[edit]9 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Heinz Rafoth | January 6, 1923 | Military officer | Heer | ![]() |
Hans Reichelt | March 30, 1925 | Politician in the GDR | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Madeleine Riffaud | August 23, 1924 | Poet, journalist, & war correspondent | French Resistance | ![]() |
Basil Rigg | August 12, 1926 | Cricket player | Australian Army | ![]() |
Fred Risser | May 5, 1927 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
John Roberts | April 4, 1924 | Admiral | Royal Navy | ![]() |
Arthur Rock | August 19, 1926 | Businessman, investor | US Army | ![]() |
Richard Rohmer | January 24, 1924 | Military writer; Ultimatum | Royal Canadian Air Force | ![]() |
Philip Ruppe | September 29, 1926 | U.S. Congressman | V-12 Navy College Training Program | ![]() |
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[edit]21 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Howard F. Sachs | September 13, 1925 | Judge | US Navy | ![]() |
Frank Saucier | May 28, 1926 | Baseball player | US Navy | ![]() |
Norman Scarth | October 1925 (age 98) | Blogger & political candidate | Royal Navy | ![]() |
Art Schallock | April 25, 1924 | Baseball player | US Navy[3] | ![]() |
Rolf Schimpf | November 14, 1924 | German television actor | Heer | ![]() |
Walter Franz Schleser | October 25, 1930 | Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten | Volkssturm | ![]() |
Helmut Schlesinger | September 4, 1924 | President of the Deutsche Bundesbank | Heer | ![]() |
Wolfgang Schumann | June 5, 1929 | Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
Sen Sōshitsu XV | April 19, 1923 | Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school | Imperial Japanese Navy | ![]() |
Ralph Senensky[4] | May 1, 1923 | TV director & writer | US Army | ![]() |
Doc Severinsen | July 7, 1927 | Trumpeter | US Army | ![]() |
Bobby Shantz | September 26, 1925 | Baseball player | US Army | ![]() |
Charles Norman Shay | June 27, 1924 | Penobscot tribal elder, writer | US Army | ![]() |
Robert G. Shulman | March 3, 1924 | Biophysicist | US Navy | ![]() |
Władysław Siemaszko | June 8, 1919 | Author, Lawyer | Home Army | ![]() |
Edward H. Sims | May 29, 1923 | Author | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Richard T. Spooner | September 10, 1925 | Author | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Irena Stankiewicz | February 28, 1925 | Graphic artist | Home Army | ![]() |
Willis H. Stephens | June 7, 1925 | Politician | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Heinz Stöcker | January 22, 1929 | General | Volkssturm | ![]() |
Fritz Streletz | September 28, 1926 | General | Wehrmacht | ![]() |
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[edit]4 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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John Tinniswood | August 26, 1912 | Supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living man | British Army | ![]() |
Dan Tolkowsky | January 17, 1921 | Commander of the Israeli Air Force | Royal Air Force | ![]() |
Aldo Tortorella | July 10, 1926 | Journalist & politician | Italian Resistance | ![]() |
James Wesley Turpin | December 18, 1927 | Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist | US Navy | ![]() |
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[edit]3 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Dick Van Dyke | December 13, 1925 | Actor and comedian | US Army Air Corps | ![]() |
Enrico Vanzini | November 18, 1922 | Holocaust survivor; last Italian sonderkommando | Royal Italian Army | ![]() |
Thomas Franklin Vaughns | July 12, 1920 | Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
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[edit]7 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Herbert Wahler | December 10, 1921 | Accused of war crimes by SWC | Einsatzgruppe | ![]() |
Joe Wallach | September 10, 1923 | Businessman | US Army | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
G. William Whitehurst | March 12, 1925 | Politician | US Navy | ![]() |
Charley Winner | July 2, 1924 | Football player | US Army Air Forces | ![]() |
Woody Woodbury | February 9, 1924 | Comedian & actor | US Marine Corps | ![]() |
Oscar Wyatt | July 11, 1924 | Businessman | US Army Air Corps | ![]() |
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[edit]1 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Barbara Yeaman | December 16, 1924 | Conservationist | Women Airforce Service Pilots | ![]() |
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[edit]3 veterans
Veteran | Birth | Notability | Service | Country |
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Franklin B. Zimmerman | June 20, 1923 | Musicologist, conductor | US Army | ![]() |
Zou Jiahua | October 1926 (age 97) | Politician | National Revolutionary Army | ![]() |
Leszek Żukowski | February 11, 1929 | President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers | Gray Ranks | ![]() |
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.