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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
New York Post10d
World’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106: ‘Lived with integrity every single day’
A veteran believed to be the world’s oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from Kentucky was 23 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on the US ...
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Kentuckian believed to be oldest Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) - A Kentucky man known as the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor has died at 106 years old. Vaughn P. Drake Jr. was one of the last known survivors of the attack on Pearl ...
NBC Washington12d
Oldest known Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106
At 106 years old, Vaughn Drake Jr. was the oldest known survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor until his death on April 7, according to his obituary. Born Nov. 6, 1918, in Winchester, Kentucky ...
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Survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor dies at 106
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — Vaughn P. Drake Jr., who was on Oahu during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has died, according to an obituary. At 106, Drake was believed to be the oldest known U.S ...