Warren "Red" Upton, the last surviving veteran of the battleship USS Utah, which sank in Pearl Harbor during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack and remains there as a memorial, died Wednesday in San Jose, Calif. He was 105.
#RIP Pearl Harbor survivor Warren "Red" Upton who passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 105. Upton was a radioman aboard USS Utah when the battleship was hit by two torpedoes on 7 Dec 1941. As the Utah began to roll over, he abandoned ship and swam to shore, towing a shipmate who couldn't swim.
-- U.S. Naval Institute (@navalinstitute.bsky.social) December 26, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Upton, however, told The Mercury News that he had no plans to inter his cremated remains in the sunken hull of the Utah, an honor available to the crew members who survived the sinking. "I got off there once," he told the newspaper. "I'm not going back."
Interestingly, the last of the Japanese airmen who took part in the attack died this year: a bombadier who struck the ship on which Upton served (www.nytimes.com).
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