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Henry Mayor "Hank" Bourgeois (2009)
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - One of the last surviving aviators from World War II's famed Black Sheep Squadron has died in Covington, La. Henry Mayor "Hank" Bourgeois was 88. Bourgeois joined the Marine Corps in 1940, served during both World War II and the Korean War and retired from the military after 20 years. But the duty for which he was best remembered was with the Marine Fighting...
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Huang Tingxin (2009)
The Associated Press BEIJING — The last Chinese veteran of the 1944 liberation of France has died, state media reported Wednesday. Huang Tingxin had been an officer aboard the British aircraft carrier HMA Searcher during the invasion of southern France known as Operation Dragoon. The August landings near the city of Toulon were a follow-up to the June 6 D-Day invasion of Normandy. ...
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Bernard Harding (2009)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday. He was 90. Harding's wife, Ruth Harding, confirmed he died at his home in Milford. He had prostate cancer. Harding never found his wings during his September trip to Germany, but was given...
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Lee Hu-rak (2009)
By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85. Lee, who had been hospitalized since early May, died of old age and a brain tumor, said Park Yu-kyoung, a spokeswoman at Kyung Hee University...
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Willard Varnell Oliver, 88 (1921 - 2009)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (Associated Press) - Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88. Lawrence Oliver said his father died at the Northern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System Hospital in Prescott, Ariz. He had been declining health for the...
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Juan Almeida Bosque, 82 (1927 - 2009)
By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press Writer HAVANA ( Associated Press ) - Juan Almeida Bosque 9/11/2009 Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his...
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Mohamed Seineldin (2009)
Mohamed Seineldin, a former army colonel who led failed military uprisings against two elected governments seeking to prosecute dictatorship-era human rights abuses in Argentina, died...
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Robert Decatur (2009)
BILOXI, Miss. - Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who went on to become a judge and civil rights lawyer, has died. He was 88. Decatur died at his home in Titusville, Fla., on Aug...
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Earl Haig (2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON — Earl Haig, who developed his gift for painting as a prisoner of war in World War II, has died at age 91. Art helped Haig move out of the...
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Bela Kiraly, 97 (1912 - 2009)
By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary - Bela Kiraly, one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, has died, the government said....
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H. M. Cummings (2009)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - H.M. Cummings, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first group of black military pilots and crew, died Thursday. He was 90. Cummings, who had been sick with...
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Kenneth L. Reusser, 89 (1920 - 2009)
CLACKAMAS, Ore. - Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, a highly decorated Marine aviator who was shot down in three wars, has died at age 89. Reusser, who died June 20 and was...
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Roger Terry, 87 (1921 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Roger Terry, whose conviction for "jostling" a superior was reversed 50 years after he and other Tuskegee Airmen attempted to enter a whites-only officer's club, died Thursday....
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George E. Wahlen, 84 (1924 - 2009)
ROY, Utah (AP) _ George E. Wahlen, a Medal of Honor recipient wounded during the battle of Iwo Jima, died Friday. He was 84. Wahlen's family said he died of lung cancer at the U.S. Veterans...
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Ret. Vice Adm. James F. Calvert, 88 (1920 - 2009)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Retired Vice Adm. James F. Calvert, a submarine pioneer and author who served in the Navy during World War II before going on to be superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, died...
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Willie K. Begay, 88 (1921 - 2009)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Willie K. Begay, a Navajo Code Talker who was part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II...
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Thomas Claw, 87 (1922 - 2009)
PARKER, Ariz. - Thomas Claw, one of an elite group of Navajo Marines who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 87. Claw...
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Charles Albury, 88 (1920 - 2009)
ORLANDO, Fla. - Charles Albury, co-pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, died May 23. He was 88. Albury died in a hospital after suffering for years from congestive...
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Christopher F. Randolph (2009)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Christopher F. Randolph, a Vietnam veteran who served as president and chief executive of a foundation that helps the children of Marines go to college, died May 22. He was 64. ...
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John Brown, Jr. (2009)
PHOENIX , Arizona - John Brown Jr., a Navajo Code Talker who was part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II,...
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Newt Heisley (2009)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Newt Heisley, the designer of the POW/MIA flag adopted by Congress in 1990 as a symbol of the nation's concern for those missing during military actions in...
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Col. Harold E. Fischer, Jr., 83 (1925 - 2009)
Col. Harold E. Fischer, an ace fighter pilot whose high-profile captivity became a symbol of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China at the end of the Korean War, has died. He was 83. ...
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Elisha Ray Nance, 94 (1914 - 2009)
ROANOKE, Va. - Elisha Ray Nance, the last survivor of a Virginia National Guard company that had high D-Day losses on Omaha Beach, died Sunday. He was 94. Nance died in Bedford, said a...
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Russell Dunham, 89 (1920 - 2009)
Russell Dunham, an Illinois man who was awarded the Medal of Honor after killing nine German soldiers and taking two others captive while wounded during World War II, has died. He was 89. ...
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Walter Palmer, 87 (1921 - 2009)
INDIANAPOLIS - Walter Palmer, one of Indiana's last living members of a famed World War II group of black fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 87. Palmer died at his...
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Arnold Meri (1919 - 2009)
Tallinn, Estonia - Arnold Meri, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, has died. He was 89. Meri, a former...
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Robert C. "Snuffy" Gray, 83 (1925 - 2009)
STURGIS, S.D. - Robert C. "Snuffy" Gray, a retired Army officer whose life as a soldier, veteran and friend of native Americans was the focus of a British television documentary last month, died...
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Susan Hibbert, 84 (1924 - 2009)
LONDON - Susan Hibbert, who typed the English version of the German surrender document and then messaged London when World War II ended in Europe in 1945, has died at age 84. Hibbert died Feb....
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James E. Swett, 88 (1920 - 2009)
Redding, Calif. - James E. Swett, a Marine Corps pilot who received the Medal of Honor for shooting down seven Japanese bombers, has died. He was 88. Swett died Jan. 18 at Mercy Medical...
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Robert G. Ferry (2009)
SAN MARCOS, Calif. - Robert G. Ferry, a helicopter test pilot who set a record in 1966 with a nonstop solo flight across the country, has died. He was 85. Ferry died Jan. 15 at his Lake San...
