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Posted: 4/27/2024 9:47:18 PM EDT
Another great Mark Felton video:
 How Many WW2 Veterans Still Alive 2024? |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 9:54:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Makarov]
[#1]
My Dad served during WWII. He passed away in 2023
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Posted: 4/27/2024 9:54:42 PM EDT
[#2]
My grandfather would be 100, sadly he's no longer with us.
Can't be many left |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 9:56:57 PM EDT
[#3]
My neighbor across the street was a WW2 vet. He passed away two months ago followed by his wife of 90-years last month.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 9:59:35 PM EDT
[#4]
Zero in my circle. Last one I personally knew died last year.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:01:33 PM EDT
[#5]
Not many.
A lot of last war veterans lived to 109 to 113 range. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:03:56 PM EDT
[#6]
My great uncle Bob is 104 this year. Was in the Navy during WWII and Korea.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 10:06:30 PM EDT
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It’s got to be dwindling down low. Sad. This generation was truly the finest! My dad passed in 99. Communications Specialist, Pacific Front.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:06:39 PM EDT
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My grandfather passed last month. He served in the Navy during WWII. First in the European theater, then the Pacific theater. Spent a lot of time on the Phillipines towards the end of the war.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:25:21 PM EDT
[#9]
2016 for my dad.
10th Mountain Division 85E I miss you dad. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:29:45 PM EDT
[#10]
None in my family. Grandfather was in WWI he died in 1959. My father served during Vietnam. He is 81.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:32:44 PM EDT
[#11]
My dad passed in 2012 at 92. He was a D-Day vet.
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:39:44 PM EDT
[#12]
About 80-90k
We lose around 130 a day. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:48:20 PM EDT
[#13]
Not many. My dad died when I was 14 in 1976.
I visited his grave today to tidy up a little. He died when I was young but he sure taught me a lot.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:55:59 PM EDT
[#14]
We have more than any other country. Followed by Japan and India.
I expect in the end surviving Japanese WWII vets will outnumber everyone else. |
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Posted: 4/27/2024 11:57:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dtux]
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 11boomboom: My neighbor across the street was a WW2 vet. He passed away two months ago followed by his wife of 90-years last month. Wife of 90 years? How old were they? I'm calling shenanigans. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 12:18:30 AM EDT
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Reminds me of my old man talking about how many WW I veterans were around when he was a kid. Jesus, how the time passes, eh?
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Posted: 4/28/2024 12:29:30 AM EDT
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I know of two at least. One is 105 and was a army nurse. Still pretty sharp and attends VFW meetings at her post and county council.
I’m not sure the age of the other but he was Navy. Plays golf all the time. See him at our VFW meetings. |
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UT, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 12:44:30 AM EDT
[#18]
My grandfather. He's 102. Sharp as a tack. He served in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Italy. After he got out he became an electrical engineer. He helped invent the earliest versions of transistors and later worked on the development of Gen 1 night vision. I have an early tube he snuck out the back door in the 70s. He still works on little soldering projects around the house.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 1:39:48 AM EDT
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Grandpa did North Africa and Normandy. Died in 2007
Grandma served in Navy on hospital boat off of Normandy. Died in 2013 RIP |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 1:59:01 AM EDT
[#20]
Not many.
My grandfather was a B-17 tailgunner in the 8th over Europe. He passed away in 2003. Had some amazing stories. God bless. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 2:42:38 AM EDT
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As of 2023, 119,550 World War II veterans are still alive, which is less than 1% of the 16.4 million Americans who served in the war.
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USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 2:43:46 AM EDT
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Last one I was related to died in 2000. 46 missions over Europe. 45 required to rotate home and the last to fill in for someone that was sick.
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USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 2:44:46 AM EDT
[#23]
the more important question is if they approved
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Posted: 4/28/2024 3:08:15 AM EDT
[#24]
Grandpa was Army Air Force in England. He passed in 2008. Family friend was Pearl Harbor survivor and had some great stories I heard as a kid. He passed back in the mid 90's.
There's not many left
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Posted: 4/28/2024 3:11:55 AM EDT
[#25]
The youngest living U.S. WWII vet is over 90.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:38:59 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Tirador223: Reminds me of my old man talking about how many WW I veterans were around when he was a kid. Jesus, how the time passes, eh? To put things in perspective, my Father met a U.S. Civil War veteran in the 1930s. The old guy was invited to the classroom to tell the kids about the war. Something my Father was doing up until 2011. According to Google, there are maybe a little over 100,000 U.S. Veterans of WWII still with us. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 5:56:39 AM EDT
[Last Edit: akguy1985]
[#27]
My great uncle Robert was a corpsman in the Pacific. He died in 1994 at 69.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:03:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Tirador223: Reminds me of my old man talking about how many WW I veterans were around when he was a kid. Jesus, how the time passes, eh? There were a BUNCH of WW1 vets running around when I was growing up and even a couple of Spanish-American war veterans. 
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USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:08:16 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Bubbatheredneck]
[#29]
Google said 120k when looked a month or so ago.
I met one last month. Enlisted in the navy in 1941. He was still mentally sharp. I was sad when I realized he will likely be the last one I ever met. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:23:21 AM EDT
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My grandfather, who I jerked many crappie with, would have been 102 this year. He was wounded at Monterummici Italy fighting Germans with the 34th (Red Bull). Glad he made it! I’ve been to where he was wounded. The foxholes there on both side, while mostly filled in, are still quite visable today.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 7:48:45 AM EDT
[#31]
I didn't watch the video, so I don't know whether it answered the OP's question. I did google it, though. According to the World War II museum there were 119,550 surviving veterans of World War II as of 2023. It's estimated 131 WWII veterans die each day so it's safe to assume there are fewer now.
WWII Veteran Statistics |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:37:35 AM EDT
[#32]
Now it's Korean/Cold War/Vietnam vets that are dying off.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:54:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Merlin]
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HiramRanger: About 80-90k We lose around 130 a day. The US is covered in the first 3 minutes of the ~9 minute video. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:56:23 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By neshomamench: The youngest living U.S. WWII vet is over 90. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:08:42 PM EDT
[#35]
My across the street neighbor was a B24 gunner and will be 99 on Sept 22 this year. Lives alone and drives everyday, acts like he is mid seventies! Mind is sharp as a tack. We check on him often and I make sure his trash can is pulled around. He tells great stories!
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:26:38 PM EDT
[#36]
I used to know many, including my father. When I was a young man entering the work force, they were still around in the labor pool in vast numbers.
All gone now. My father passed in 2009.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:33:42 PM EDT
[#37]
Go to church with a Korean war vet and he's in his 90s. I don't know any living ww2 vets both my grandpa's were but they're gone.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:36:19 PM EDT
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The last one in my family is my uncle , Mother's Brother. He is 98 going on 99 this summer. He served ETO as Mech Infantry from three weeks after D Day until the end of the war in Austria. He killed his first deer in Austria less than a week after the war ended. He gave me a K98 he took home from the war. It is and will always be a treasure for me. Like just about everyone else, he returned from the war and raised a family working on his farm and at a mill in town. He taught me a lot and I will miss him greatly when he is gone.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:36:30 PM EDT
[#39]
Great grandpa died 2 years ago at 99 , was a navy guy in ww2 . Diesel mechanic on a destroyer.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 4:53:54 PM EDT
[#40]
I'm still doing Funeral Honors for WWII vets every couple of weeks.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:33:16 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By packinheavy: I'm still doing Funeral Honors for WWII vets every couple of weeks. G-d bless you! |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:46:01 AM EDT
[#42]
80 years ago so if 20 in 1944 means 100 now.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:49:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Topper1: My grandfather would be 100, sadly he's no longer with us. Can't be many left Mine would too come this Dec 7th. Miss him.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:49:24 AM EDT
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I still know a guy who is 97 and he missed WWII by a few months.
Back in 97 I was around McGuire AFB where there are tons of 55+ communities. They were still strong and active and I met a lot of amazing people with great stories to tell. I always stopped to talk with them. I will never know people like them ever again. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:40:22 PM EDT
[#45]
We buried the last of our families' WWII vets in 2023. He survived a lot of crap to pass away peacefully in his sleep at a ripe old age.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 12:43:34 PM EDT
[#46]
Not many. My dad was in Korea five years after WWII, he was too young for WWII. He passed at age 92 12-19-2023. All his WWII veteran brothers were already long gone.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/29/2024 1:04:21 PM EDT
[#47]
My uncle died at 102 last year. Omaha beach. Survived the beach. Got grenaded inland.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 1:15:46 PM EDT
[#48]
Grandpa was a replacement at the Bulge. Died a few years ago at 93. I miss him.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 1:46:29 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Merlin: Another great Mark Felton video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ocEdTNMkYInteresting that the bugle call at the end of that piece wasn't my nation's bugle call, but its meaning and impact on me was no different than my nation's "Taps". I instantly knew what it meant. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 2:24:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Mp40Gunner]
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There were a lot of very young HJ that fought who will live longer than American vets. My Opa would have been 102. Died in 2003. Fought 2 and a half years in Russia/ Crimea and was sent to the western front with a new division in Feb. 1945. Captured by the Amis April, 16th 1945.
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