Charles Sehe, who served on the ship during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France, and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, died Sunday at age 101.
Charles Sehe, who served on the ship during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France, and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, died Sunday at age 101.
Butler Martin made his mark as a barrier-breaking World War II Marine who trained under challenging conditions in the segregated South. He died Sept. 27 at age 101.
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.