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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 ...
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on 8 December 1941, nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor (the Philippines is on the Asian side of the international date line). Although it was governed by a semi-independent commonwealth government, Washington controlled the Philippines at the time and possessed ...
On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas attacked the camp and liberated more than 500 prisoners. After the surrender of tens of thousands of American troops during the Battle of Bataan, many were sent to the Cabanatuan prison camp after the Bataan Death March. The Japanese ...
The Kennedy Middle School in Natick hosted its annual Veterans Breakfast on Thursday, welcoming 27 area veterans to speak with students. Veterans Day: War heroes share stories, poems with students ...
Philippine Army personnel of World War II (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Filipino military personnel of World War II" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined United States Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp.
"Dorothy Still Danner: Reminiscences of a Nurse POW" (PDF). Navy Medicine. 83 (3): 36– 40. Louis Morton, US Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific--The Fall of the Philippines (United States Army Center of Military History, 1952) "A Tribute to Our Nurses" (PDF). The Quan. 58 (2). American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor: 1, 6– 7, 9 ...
Less than 1% of the 16.4 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II were still alive at the end of last year, and 131 are dying every day, according to estimates from the ...