Navy via AP)] ‘It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Pearl Harbor Survivor Warren “Red” Upton, the last living survivor of the USS Utah,’ stated Pacific Historic Parks on Facebook on Thursday.
Oldest Pearl Harbor attack survivor dies aged 105 The oldest survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack amid World War II has died at the age of 105.
Warren Upton at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, on Wednesday after battling pneumonia, according to the state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors, Kathleen Farley.
Upton, who was serving as a radioman aboard the USS Utah battleship in Oahu, was about to shave when a Japanese torpedo struck it early on December 7, 1941.
(Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group via AP)] The vessel shook and no one knew what it was, but it started to capsize after another torpedo struck.
