The following is a list of the oldest veterans of World War II. Those included on this list are above the age of 108.
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Living
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Age as of 3 Dec 2020 | Country |
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| 1 | Mollie Walker [1] | F | 5 Feb 1909 | 111 years, 301 days |  UK
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| 2 | Lawrence Brooks [2] | M | 12 Sept 1909 | 111 years, 82 days |  USA
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| 3 | Margaret Reed [3] | F | 20 Apr 1910 | 110 years, 227 days | UK
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| 4 | Julia Kabance [4] | F | 10 Aug 1910 | 110 years, 115 days | USA
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| 5 | Ezra Hill [5] | M | 19 Dec 1910 | 109 years, 349 days | USA
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| 6 | Pat Corbin [6] | F | 17 Mar 1911 | 109 years, 261 days |  JER UK
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| 7 | Ronald Hermanns [7] | M | 25 Sept 1911 | 109 years, 69 days |  CAN NZL
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| 8 | Robert Marchand | M | 26 Nov 1911 | 109 years, 7 days |  FRA
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| 9 | Josip Krsul [8] | M | 10 Dec 1911 | 108 years, 358 days |  CRO
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| 10 | Bennie Woolam [9] | M | 12 Jan 1912 | 108 years, 325 days | USA
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| 11 | Ioan Lascau [10] | M | 25 Feb 1912 | 108 years, 281 days |  ROU
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| 12 | Raymond Monroy [11] | M | 11 May 1912 | 108 years, 206 days | USA
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| 13 | Steve Ferri [12] | M | 2 Sept 1912 | 108 years, 92 days | USA
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| 14 | Frances Shutt [13] | F | 12 Nov 1912 | 108 years, 21 days | USA
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Chronology
Mollie Walker is the current oldest veteran of World War II.
Mollie Walker is the current oldest female veteran of World War II. The oldest male veteran is Lawrence Brooks.
Deceased
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| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | Country |
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| Gabrielle des Robert | F | 4 June 1904 | 3 Dec 2018 | 114 years, 182 days | FRA
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| Gustav Gerneth | M | 15 Oct 1905 | 22 Oct 2019 | 114 years, 7 days |  POL GER
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| Jozef Kowalski | M | 2 Feb 1900? | 7 Dec 2013 | 113 years, 308 days? |  UKRPOL
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| Maximiano Jose dos Santos | M | 22 Feb 1893 | 25 Apr 2006 | 113 years, 62 days |  BRA
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| Richard Overton [1] | M | 11 May 1906 | 27 Dec 2018 | 112 years, 230 days | USA
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| Yoshikazu Yamashita | M | 10 Apr 1907 | 7 July 2019 | 112 years, 88 days |  JPN
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| Emma Didlake | F | 13 Mar 1904 | 16 Aug 2015 | 111 years, 154 days | USA
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| Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski | M | 19 July 1894 | 6 Dec 2005 | 111 years, 140 days | UKR UK
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| Alf Smith | M | 29 Mar 1908 | 4 Aug 2019 | 111 years, 128 days | UK
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| Shelby Harris | M | 31 Mar 1901 | 25 July 2012 | 111 years, 116 days | USA
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| Kamado Tsuha | M | 10 June 1908 | 15 Aug 2019 | 111 years, 66 days | JPN
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| Mark Matthews | M | 7 Aug 1894? | 6 Sept 2005 | 111 years, 30 days? | USA
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| Leopold Vietoris | M | 4 June 1891 | 9 Apr 2002 | 110 years, 309 days |  AUT
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| Gerhart Schneider | M | 13 Mar 1908 | 18 Dec 2018 | 110 years, 280 days | POLGER
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| Gertrude Noone | F | 30 Dec 1898 | 10 Sept 2009 | 110 years, 254 days | USA
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| Rezso Gallai | M | 29 Jan 1904 | 25 Sept 2014 | 110 years, 239 days |  HUN
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| Yang Changwen | M | 23 Jan 1908 | 14 Sept 2018 | 110 years, 234 days |  CHN
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| Niko Dragos | M | 27 Aug 1907 | 31 Mar 2018 | 110 years, 216 days |  SVN
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| Giovanni Quarisa | M | 24 Aug 1909 | 21 Mar 2020 | 110 years, 210 days |  ITA
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| Ralph Hoare | M | 19 July 1908 | 29 Jan 2019 | 110 years, 194 days | UK
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| Frank Levingston | M | 13 Nov 1905 | 3 May 2016 | 110 years, 172 days | USA
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| Michel Chevallier | M | 3 July 1908 | 11 Nov 2018 | 110 years, 131 days | FRA
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| Ralph Tarrant | M | 7 Jul 1903 | 30 Oct 2013 | 110 years, 115 days | UK
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| Lynn Balmer | F | 12 Sept 1907 | 9 Dec 2017 | 110 years, 88 days | USA
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| John Campbell Ross | M | 11 Mar 1899 | 3 June 2009 | 110 years, 84 days |  AUS
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| Gordon Saunders | M | 12 July 1910 | 18 Sept 2020 | 110 years, 68 days | USA
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| Martin Eichel | M | 13 July 1907 | 18 Sept 2017 | 110 years, 67 days | GER
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| Paul Veit | M | 15 Jan 1903 | 21 Mar 2013 | 110 years, 65 days | GER
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| Claude Choules | M | 3 Mar 1901 | 5 May 2011 | 110 years, 63 days | UK AUS
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| Reg Dean | M | 4 Nov 1902 | 5 Jan 2013 | 110 years, 62 days | UK
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| Salvatore Cavallo | M | 16 May 1909 | 11 July 2019 | 110 years, 56 days | ITA
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| Luigi Tomasi | M | 17 Oct 1908 | 7 Dec 2018 | 110 years, 51 days | ITA
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| Ben Haymon | M | 8 Nov 1909 | 18 Dec 2019 | 110 years, 40 days | USA
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| Rizalina Alvarez Claravall [2] | F | c.7 May 1909 | 4 June 2019 | 110 years, c.28 days |  PHL
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| Teiichiro Iwakawa | M | 25 Feb 1909 | 21 Mar 2019 | 110 years, 24 days | JPN
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| Torinosuke Iida | M | 25 Dec 1909 | 17 Jan 2020 | 110 years, 23 days | JPN
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| Bill Sheetz | M | 17 May 1906 | 28 May 2016 | 110 years, 11 days | USA
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| Mzee Stanslaus Sajjabbi Kavuma | M | 15 Aug 1907? | 13 Aug 2017 | 109 years, 363 days? |  UGA
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| Walter Sturzebecher [3] | M | 25 July 1908 | 14 July 2018 | 109 years, 354 days | GER
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| Robert Meier | M | 10 Mar 1897 | 29 Jan 2007 | 109 years, 325 days | GER
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| Otello Pomponi | M | 4 Feb 1908 | 26 Dec 2017 | 109 years, 325 days | ITA
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| Robert Winterstein [4] | M | 6 Sep 1907 | 25 May 2017 | 109 years, 261 days | GER
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| Antoni Wojciechowski | M | 15 Nov 1906 | 19 May 2016 | 109 years, 186 days | POL
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| Franciszek Karwowski | M | 10 Oct 1895 | 12 Apr 2005 | 109 years, 184 days | POL
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| Curtis Tigard [5] | M | 13 Apr 1909 | 25 July 2018 | 109 years, 103 days | USA
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| Tom Morris [6] | M | 1 Aug 1910 | 20 Oct 2019 | 109 years, 80 days | USA
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| Charles Kayhart [14] | M | 14 Oct 1911 | 26 Oct 2020 | 109 years, 12 days | USA
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| Heinrich Homann [15] | M | 24 June 1911 | 24 June 2020 | 109 years, 0 days | GER
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| Dr. Josef Seefelder [7] | M | 19 Apr 1909 | 6 Apr 2018 | 108 years, 352 days | GER
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| Dragoljub Galic | M | 12 Oct 1909 | 26 Aug 2018 | 108 years, 318 days |  BIH
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| James O. Bass | M | 12 July 1910 | 21 May 2019 | 108 years, 313 days | USA
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| Lucy Coffey [8] | F | 14 May 1906 | 19 Mar 2015 | 108 years, 309 days | USA
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| Bernhard Prott | M | 16 Sept 1904 | 16 July 2013 | 108 years, 303 days | GER
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| Herbert Kreibich | M | 24 Mar 1910 | 7 Jan 2019 | 108 years, 289 days |  CZE SUI
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| James Brown [9] | M | 20 June 1911 | 2 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 287 days | USA
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| Ben Raymond | M | 23 July 1911 | 20 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 272 days | UK
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| Karl-Heinz Buschen [10] | M | 20 Nov 1909 | Aug 2018 | 108 years, 254 days+ | GER
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| Eugene Ruf [11] | M | 19 Apr 1909 | 29 Dec 2017 | 108 years, 254 days | USA
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| Odo Buratti [16] | M | 22 Feb 1911 | 14 Oct 2019 | 108 years, 234 days | ITA
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| Jozef Zurek | M | 31 Aug 1909 | 20 Mar 2018 | 108 years, 201 days | POL
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| Anthony Mancinelli | M | 2 Mar 1911 | 19 Sept 2019 | 108 years, 201 days | ITA USA
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| Waldemar Levy Cardoso | M | 4 Dec 1900 | 13 May 2008 | 108 years, 160 days | BRA
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| Alyce Dixon [12] | F | 11 Sept 1907 | 27 Jan 2016 | 108 years, 138 days | USA
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| Anne Robson [13] | F | 14 Sept 1911 | 20 Jan 2020 | 108 years, 128 days | UK
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| Georges Loinger [14] | M | 29 Aug 1910 | 28 Dec 2018 | 108 years, 121 days | FRA
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| Maurice Stael | M | 25 Sept 1911 | 24 Jan 2020 | 108 years, 121 days |  BEL
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| Bill Stone | M | 23 Sept 1900 | 10 Jan 2009 | 108 years, 109 days | UK
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| Paul Beckman [15] | M | 20 Aug 1912 | 1 Dec 2020 | 108 years, 103 days | USA
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| Bill Mohr [16] | M | 22 Oct 1908 | 18 Dec 2016 | 108 years, 57 days | USA
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| Joe Daniels [17] | M | 19 Feb 1912 | 17 April 2020 | 108 years, 57 days | UK
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| Ragnar Lindholm | M | 24 July 1906 | 2 Sept 2020 | 108 years, 40 days |  FIN
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| Erich Walde | M | 1 July 1905 | 5 Aug 2013 | 108 years, 35 days | GER
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| Roland Hoffmann | M | 30 Aug 1909 | 1 Oct 2017 | 108 years, 32 days | GER
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| Väinö Loisa | M | 26 July 1912 | 10 Aug 2020 | 108 years, 15 days | FIN
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| William Frankland | M | 19 Mar 1912 | 2 Apr 2020 | 108 years, 14 days | UK
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References
- ↑ Nation's oldest living veteran Richard Overton dies in Austin at age 112 FOX News, 27 December 2018
- ↑ Filipino World War II Veterans awarded with US Congressional Gold Medal Mintfo, 10 September 2019
- ↑ Death notification CHRISTOPHORUS
- ↑ Hier trifft der älteste Münchner die älteste Münchnerin
• Der älteste Münchner ist tot (†109) - der Sohn (66) erinnert sich - ↑ Curtis Tigard, member of city's founding family, dies Koin 6
- ↑ Tom “Ike” Morris 109th Birthday
- ↑ In_zehn_Jahren_dürfen_Sie_wiederkommen 100
• Sieben Methusalems leben in Wesel 105 - ↑ Oldest American woman veteran dies at 108
- ↑ James Brown Obituary Oscar’s Mortuary, Inc.
- ↑ Personal Correspondence
- ↑ Army veteran celebrates 108th birthday, shares his secret to a long, happy life FOX San Antonio, 20 April 2017
- ↑ Alyce Dixon, nation’s oldest female World War II veteran, dies at 108 The Washington Post
- ↑ World War Two veteran Anne Robson dies aged 108 BBC News, 23 January 2020
- ↑ Le résistant Georges Loinger est mort à l'âge de 108 ans France bleu
- ↑ Freedom Riders help local veteran celebrate 108th birthday Nebraska TV, 22 August 2020
- ↑ 108-year-old WWII veteran pays special visit to DC memorial
• World War II vet Sgt. Bill Mohr of Montgomery County who met President Obama last month dies at 108 - ↑ War veteran celebrates 108th birthday at Seaton Midweek Herald, 20 February 2020
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