HONOLULU (AP) — Warren ‘Red’ Upton, the oldest living
survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and
the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He
was 105.
Kathleen Farley, of the California state chair of the Sons
and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors said Upton died
Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after
suffering a bout of pneumonia.
The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when
Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval base
in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the attack propelled
the U.S. into World War II.
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