Vaughn Paris Drake Jr, America’s oldest living veteran of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has passed away. He was 106. He is survived by his wife, Lina Wilson Drake, his son Samuel Drake, two grandsons, and three great-grandchildren.
Vaughn P. Drake Jr. from Kentucky was 23 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on the US Pacific naval base in Hawaii, according to a press release.
He was working as an Army engineer at Kaneohe Naval Air Station on Oahu on the day of the shocking attack on December 7, 1941, which precipitated America’s entry into World War II.
“We were getting ready to go to breakfast, and we heard all these planes flying over and making a lot of noise,” Drake told the Lexington Herald Leader in 2016.
“We just figured it was the Army Air Corps carrying out maneuvers for practice, like they did a lot. We didn’t pay much…
