Posted on 11/03/2022 4:15:28 PM PDT by DFG
The last known Pearl Harbor survivor in Nevada died in his sleep this week at the age of 99, but not before joking around with his nurses once last time.
Edward 'Ed' Hall died around 2:45 a.m. on Wednesday at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center, according to his friend Greg Mannarino.
Mannarino told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he visited his longtime friend the night before he passed away, and that he was 'full of life' as he joked with the nurses.
Hall was in the U.S. Army Air Corps and only 18 years old when Japan launched a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that left 2,403 Americans dead.
Hall's longtime friend Mannarino visited him on Tuesday, the night before he passed.
'He passed away peacefully in his sleep,' Mannarino confirmed. 'He joked with the nurses last night. Before I left he said "I love you." He seemed still full of life. The doctor told me that "When we went to check on him, he was unresponsive." I just fell over completely. He was the greatest guy, from the greatest generation. Those men were cut from a different cloth.'
Hall had told the Review-Journal in an August 2020 interview that he was saddened to hear that he was believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in the state of Nevada.
In the interview, he also said that December 7, 1941 was a day he would never forget.
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My Dad’s introduction to the Japanese was at Okinawa, in the personage of a Kamikaze pilot who flew bare feet over his AA position at the base of the #3 turret of the Maryland and impacted on the top of said turret, killing 12 Americans.
We have a Press? Who knew!
Sadly you are correct.
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The way it’s written only speaks to survivors residing in Nevada. Concluding then, are there Pearl Harbor survivors in the other 49 states?
Second to the last line from the above article-
>>> Hall had told the Review-Journal in an August 2020 interview that he was saddened to hear that he was believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in the state of Nevada. <<<
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