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Britain's oldest WW2 veteran dies aged 110: Donald Rose survived D-Day and liberated Belsen

Britain's oldest Second World War veteran, also believed to be Britain's oldest man, Donald Rose, has passed away aged 110. The D-Day veteran was born on Christmas Eve in 1914, the same year that ...
UPI

Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John "Paddy" ...
The New York Times

John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain. By Richard Goldstein Addressing ...