Bolesław "Bolek" Ostrowski, the last living veteran of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade of General Stanisław Sosabowski, participant of Operation Market Garden in 1944, has died at the age of 105.
W wieku 105 lat zmarł Bolesław "Bolek" Ostrowski, ostatni żyjący weteran 1. Samodzielnej Brygady Spadochronowej generała Stanisława Sosabowskiego, uczestnik operacji "Market Garden" w 1944 roku.
Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army's first all-Black parachute infantry battalion, has died. He was 108.
Harris died March 15 in a hospital in Los Angeles surrounded by family, grandson Ashton Pittman told The Associated Press. He will be honored with a full military funeral on April 5.
"He was a very loving, loving, loving man," said Pittman. "That was one of the things that he was very strict upon was loving one another."
Tributes are paid to Arthur Leggett, WA's oldest surviving World War II prisoner of war who was captured by Germans during the Battle of Crete in 1941, after he passed away in an aged care home.