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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Casey

How oldest living survivor of Pearl Harbor attack keeps memory of bombing alive at 106

Freeman Johnson, the nation’s oldest living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, was far below deck, immersed in repairing a boiler on the USS St. Louis when Japanese planes descended on December 7, 1941.

Now 106, Johnson never witnessed the surprise assault firsthand.

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