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Oldest survivor of Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona dies
 

Joe Langdell was working as a junior accountant in Boston when he got the idea that he should join the Navy and go to sea. It was 1940 and America edged closer every day to joining the war that raged in Europe.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/.../22980983/

So sad...we are losing all the people connected with that period of history. Sad
Quote:So sad...we are losing all the people connected with that period of history. Sad
 

 Indeed.  

 

 In recent years,  the last Surviving U.S. Service people from WWI passed away.    Sadly,  the numbers of U.S. Service people from WWII are getting smaller and smaller at a pretty fast rate.