Posted on Jan 5, 2022
Oldest US World War II veteran dies at 112 in New Orleans
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Oldest US World War II veteran dies at 112 in New Orleans
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Oldest WWII vet who smoked cigars and whiskey dies aged 112
Richard Overton, the nation's oldest World War II veteran who was also believed to be the oldest living man in the US, died Thursday in Texas aged 112.
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Mr. Overton was 3 years older than Mr. Brooks. Mr. Overton died December 27, 2018 (aged 112 years, 230 days), three months after Mr. Brooks turned 109
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..."The supercentenarian was drafted and entered the Army in 1940, serving in both Louisiana and Texas. He participated in the famed Louisiana Maneuvers, where 400,000 soldiers converged on the state for readiness exercises in response to Germany’s invasion of Poland and France.
Brooks completed his obligatory one-year service, he previously told Military Times, was discharged and back at work in New Orleans in November 1941. A few weeks later, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he returned to the Army.
“There was no question,” Brooks told the National World War II Museum in one of his many oral history interviews. “They just came right back and got me again.”
He said he was sent by train at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he joined the 91st Engineer Battalion, a unit comprised of 1,193 Black enlisted soldiers and 25 white officers. He says that he journeyed to Pennsylvania for vaccines and additional training before traveling to the South Pacific theater."
..."The supercentenarian was drafted and entered the Army in 1940, serving in both Louisiana and Texas. He participated in the famed Louisiana Maneuvers, where 400,000 soldiers converged on the state for readiness exercises in response to Germany’s invasion of Poland and France.
Brooks completed his obligatory one-year service, he previously told Military Times, was discharged and back at work in New Orleans in November 1941. A few weeks later, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he returned to the Army.
“There was no question,” Brooks told the National World War II Museum in one of his many oral history interviews. “They just came right back and got me again.”
He said he was sent by train at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he joined the 91st Engineer Battalion, a unit comprised of 1,193 Black enlisted soldiers and 25 white officers. He says that he journeyed to Pennsylvania for vaccines and additional training before traveling to the South Pacific theater."
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