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Obituaries

Masamitsu Yoshioka, last of Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack force, dies at 106

Masamitsu Yoshioka, who was widely acknowledged as the last remaining witness to the Pearl Harbor attack from the side of the Imperial Japanese forces, died last month at the age of 106. As a bombardier, he launched a torpedo during the attack that hit the battleship USS Utah where 58 men lost their lives. “I think of the people who died because of me,” he said.



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