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Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, [4] and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history.
Joseph R. Beyrle (pron. BYE-er-lee) (Russian: Джозеф Вильямович Байерли; romanized: Dzhozef Vilyamovich Bayyerli; August 25, 1923 – December 12, 2004) is the only known American soldier to have served in combat with both the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army in World War II.
The 442nd Infantry Regiment (Japanese: 第442歩兵連隊) was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War ; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German and Soviet invasion of Poland . [ 2 ]
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
Military Cross & Bar John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill , DSO & Bar , MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword , and a set of bagpipes .
American military leaders of World War II (3 C, 1 P) United States Army personnel of World War II (6 C, 5,564 P) C.
Heinrich "Hein" Severloh, also known as the Beast of Omaha, (23 June 1923 – 14 January 2006) was a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division stationed in Normandy in 1944. Severloh became notable for a memoir he published in the German language WN 62 – Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach Normandie, 6.