# List of last surviving World War II veterans

The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945.
Background shading indicates the individual is still living

## Last survivors

| Veteran | Birth | Death | Notability | Service | Allegiance |
| Aimé Acton | 1917 or 1918 | 13 December 2020 (aged 102) | Last surviving veteran of the Battle of the Lys. | Belgian Armed Forces | Belgium |
| Antonio Amoretti | (1927-09-11)11 September 1927 | 23 December 2022(2022-12-23) (aged 95) | Last surviving Italian partisan of Four Days of Naples. | Italian resistance movement | Italy |
| Svend Egon Andersen | (1920-04-14)14 April 1920 | August 2017 (aged 97) | Last surviving member of the Hvidsten Group. | Danish resistance movement | Denmark |
| Bud Anderson | (1922-01-13)13 January 1922 | 17 May 2024 (aged 102) | Last surviving American triple flying ace. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Viljo Aronniemi | 1925 or 1926 | 31 January 2025 (aged 99) | Last surviving Finnish veteran of the Battle of Teikari. | Finnish Army | Finland |
| Grigol Baindurashvili | 1918 or 1919 | August 2021 (aged 102) | Last survivor of the Georgian uprising on Texel. | Georgian Legion | Germany |
| Jale Bainisika | 1914 or 1915 | February 2020 (aged 105) | Last surviving veteran of Fiji. | Fiji Infantry Regiment | Fiji |
| Richard M. Barancik | (1924-10-19)19 October 1924 | 14 July 2023(2023-07-14) (aged 98) | Last surviving Monuments Man. | US Army | United States |
| Zdzisław Baszak | (1920-07-08)8 July 1920 | 28 November 2024(2024-11-28) (aged 104) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Pszczyna. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Clarence Beavers | (1921-06-12)12 June 1921 | 4 December 2017(2017-12-04) (aged 96) | Last surviving original member of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. | US Army | United States |
| Gustavo Bellazzini | (1921-09-29) 29 September 1921 (age 103) | | Last survivor of the sinking of Roma. | Regia Marina | Italy |
| Nikolai Belyaev | (1922-10-22)22 October 1922 | 8 December 2015(2015-12-08) (aged 93) | Last surviving soldier who stormed the Reichstag. | Red Army | Soviet Union |
| Moss Berryman | (1923-11-09)9 November 1923 | 6 August 2020(2020-08-06) (aged 96) | Last surviving veteran of Operation Jaywick. | Royal Australian Navy | Australia |
| Twistleton St. Rose Bertrand | (1924-09-24)24 September 1924 | 8 December 2019(2019-12-08) (aged 95) | Last surviving veteran of Dominica. | British army | British Windward Islands |
| Emilio Bianchi [it] | (1912-10-22)22 October 1912 | 15 August 2015(2015-08-15) (aged 102) | Last surviving torpedo rider of the Raid on Alexandria. | Regia Marina | Italy |
| Aron Bielski | (1927-07-21) 21 July 1927 (age 97) | | Last surviving Bielski partisan. | Jewish partisans | Poland |
| Harold Billow | (1922-12-28)28 December 1922 | 17 May 2022(2022-05-17) (aged 99) | Last survivor of the Malmedy massacre. | US Army | United States |
| Betty Tackaberry Blake | (1920-10-29)29 October 1920 | 9 April 2015(2015-04-09) (aged 94) | Last surviving member of the original WASP class. | Women Airforce Service Pilots | United States |
| Emil Boček | (1923-02-25)25 February 1923 | 25 March 2023(2023-03-25) (aged 100) | Last surviving Czechoslovak RAF pilot. | Royal Air Force | Czechoslovakia United Kingdom |
| Fania Brantsovsky | (1922-05-22)22 May 1922 | 22 September 2024(2024-09-22) (aged 102) | Last surviving partisan of Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO). | Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye | Lithuania |
| Harold Bray | (1927-06-15) 15 June 1927 (age 97) | | Last survivor of the sinking of USS Indianapolis. | US Navy | United States |
| Clifford Brewer | (1913-04-29)29 April 1913 | 30 April 2017(2017-04-30) (aged 104) | Last surviving surgeon of the Normandy landings. | Territorial Army | United Kingdom |
| Ted Briggs | (1923-03-01)1 March 1923 | 4 October 2008(2008-10-04) (aged 85) | Last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood. | Royal Navy | United Kingdom |
| John T. Britton | (1920-02-03)3 February 1920 | 7 May 2011(2011-05-07) (aged 91) | Last surviving crew member of Old 666. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Hugo Broch | (1922-01-06) 6 January 1922 (age 103) | | Last surviving German flying ace. | Luftwaffe | Germany |
| Galina Brok-Beltsova | (1925-02-12)12 February 1925 | 15 August 2024(2024-08-15) (aged 99) | Last surviving Soviet woman combat aviator. | Soviet Air Forces | Soviet Union |
| Douglas Canning | (1919-07-04)4 July 1919 | 20 February 2016(2016-02-20) (aged 96) | Last surviving pilot of Operation Vengeance. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Mircea Caragea | (1919-01-18)18 January 1919 | 5 October 2022(2022-10-05) (aged 103) | Last surviving veteran of the Romanian Naval Forces. | Romanian Naval Forces | Romania |
| Eric Carter | (1920-02-12)12 February 1920 | 26 July 2021(2021-07-26) (aged 101) | Last surviving member of No. 151 Wing. | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom |
| Horacio Castilleja Albarrán | (1924-01-21)21 January 1924 | 30 November 2022(2022-11-30) (aged 97–98) | Last surviving veteran of Mexico. | Mexican Air Force | Mexico |
| Dean Caswell | (1922-07-24)24 July 1922 | 21 September 2022(2022-09-21) (aged 100) | Last surviving US Marine flying ace. | US Marine Corps | United States |
| Konstantinos Chatzilakos | 1920 | 29 November 2022 (aged 102) | Last surviving veteran of Greece. | Royal Hellenic Air Force | Greece |
| Charles Chibitty | (1921-11-20)20 November 1921 | 20 July 2005(2005-07-20) (aged 83) | Last surviving Comanche code talker. | US Army | United States |
| Leonard Roy Chivers | (1924-07-04) 4 July 1924 (age 100) | | Last surviving crew member of HMS Kipling. | Royal Navy | United Kingdom |
| Tserengiin Chimedtseren | (1924-10-01) 1 October 1924 (age 100) | | Last surviving Mongolian veteran of the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. | Mongolian People's Army | Mongolia |
| Dick Churchill | (1920-01-21)21 January 1920 | 12 February 2019(2019-02-12) (aged 99) | Last surviving Stalag Luft III escapee. | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom |
| Mark W. Clark | (1896-05-01)1 May 1896 | 17 April 1984(1984-04-17) (aged 87) | Last surviving American four-star officer. | US Army | United States |
| Richard E. Cole | (1915-09-07)7 September 1915 | 9 April 2019(2019-04-09) (aged 103) | Last surviving Doolittle Raider. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Lou Conter | (1921-09-13)13 September 1921 | 1 April 2024(2024-04-01) (aged 102) | Last surviving crew member of USS Arizona. | US Navy | United States |
| John Cruickshank | (1920-05-20) 20 May 1920 (age 104) | | Last surviving WW2 recipient of the Victoria Cross. | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom |
| Jaak Daemen | (1924-12-13)13 December 1924 | 6 August 2022(2022-08-06) (aged 97) | Last surviving member of the 5th Special Air Service. | Belgian Resistance, Free Belgian Forces | Belgium |
| Arturo de Gregorio | 1920 or 1921 | 22 September 2023 (aged 102) | Last surviving Spanish volunteer of the Blue Division. | German Army | Spain Germany |
| Robert Dixon | (1921-09-11)11 September 1921 | 15 November 2024(2024-11-15) (aged 103) | Last surviving Buffalo Soldier of West Point. | US Army | United States |
| Ion Dobran [ro] | (1919-02-05)5 February 1919 | 24 September 2021(2021-09-24) (aged 102) | Last surviving flying ace of the Romanian Air Force. | Romanian Air Force | Romania |
| Karl Dönitz | (1891-09-16)16 September 1891 | 24 December 1980(1980-12-24) (aged 89) | Last surviving German Großadmiral. | Kriegsmarine | Germany |
| James Francis Edwards | (1921-06-05)5 June 1921 | 14 May 2022(2022-05-14) (aged 100) | Last surviving Canadian flying ace. | Royal Canadian Air Force | Canada |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | (1890-10-14)14 October 1890 | 28 March 1969(1969-03-28) (aged 78) | Last surviving American five-star officer. | US Army | United States |
| Colette Escoffier-Martini | (1922-11-01)1 November 1922 | 28 May 2024(2024-05-28) (aged 101) | Last surviving Merlinette. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Antonín Fajkus | (1923-12-04)4 December 1923 | 5 February 2025(2025-02-05) (aged 101) | Last surviving Czech American USAAF pilot. | United States Army Air Forces | United States |
| Walenty Faterkowski | (1912-01-25)25 January 1912 | 7 May 2013(2013-05-07) (aged 101) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Tczew. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Mario Fiorentini | (1918-11-07)7 November 1918 | 9 August 2022(2022-08-09) (aged 103) | Last surviving partisan of Gruppi di Azione Patriottica. | Corpo Volontari della Libertà | Italy |
| Walter Flaxman | (1923-02-03)3 February 1923 | 8 February 2025(2025-02-08) (aged 102) | Last surviving Royal Lancer. | British Army | United Kingdom |
| Hormidas Joseph Fredette | (1917-04-11)11 April 1917 | 29 November 2023(2023-11-29) (aged 106) | Last surviving Canadian veteran of the Battle of Hong Kong. | Canadian Army | Canada |
| Bradford C. Freeman | (1924-09-24)24 September 1924 | 3 July 2022(2022-07-03) (aged 97) | Last surviving member of Easy Company. | US Army | United States |
| Kgori Molefhe Gaborone | 1917 or 1918 | 10 June 2017 (aged 99) | Last surviving veteran of Bechuanaland. | British Army | Bechuanaland Protectorate |
| Léon Gautier | (1922-10-27)27 October 1922 | 3 July 2023(2023-07-03) (aged 100) | Last surviving French veteran of the Normandy landings. | Free French Naval Forces | Free France |
| Nikolay Georgiev–Shmayzera | (1922-11-25)25 November 1922 | 1 January 2024(2024-01-01) (aged 101) | Last surviving partisan of Bulgaria. | Bulgarian resistance movement | Bulgaria |
| Tuomas Gerdt | (1922-05-28)28 May 1922 | 1 November 2020(2020-11-01) (aged 98) | Last surviving recipient of the Mannerheim Cross. | Finnish Army | Finland |
| Hubert Germain | (1920-08-06)6 August 1920 | 12 October 2021(2021-10-12) (aged 101) | Last surviving Companion of the Order of Liberation. | French Resistance | Free France |
| Max Gilbert | (1921-04-24)24 April 1921 | 24 June 2022(2022-06-24) (aged 101) | Last survivor of the Ambon Island POW camp. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Bom Gillies | (1925-02-14)14 February 1925 | 7 November 2024(2024-11-07) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of the Māori Battalion. | New Zealand Military Forces | New Zealand |
| Jerzy Główczewski | (1922-11-19)19 November 1922 | 13 April 2020(2020-04-13) (aged 97) | Last surviving pilot of the Polish Air Forces. | Royal Air Force | Poland United Kingdom |
| Rafael Gómez Nieto | (1921-01-21)21 January 1921 | 31 March 2020(2020-03-31) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of La Nueve. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Luigi Gorrini | (1917-07-12)12 July 1917 | 8 November 2014(2014-11-08) (aged 97) | Last surviving Italian flying ace. | Regia Aeronautica | Italy |
| Friedrich Grade | (1916-03-29)29 March 1916 | 13 October 2023(2023-10-13) (aged 107) | Last surviving crew member of U-96. | Kriegsmarine | Germany |
| Louis Graziano | (1923-02-06) 6 February 1923 (age 102) | | Last surviving witness to the German surrender. | US Army | United States |
| Franciszek Grzegorzek | 1919 | January 2014 (aged 94) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Mikołów. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Jarmila Halbrštátová | (1924-04-07)7 April 1924 | 2 December 2020(2020-12-02) (aged 96) | Last surviving Czechoslovak veteran of the Battle of Sokolovo. | Czechoslovak Army | Czechoslovakia Soviet Union |
| David Hamilton | (1922-07-20)20 July 1922 | 5 January 2025(2025-01-05) (aged 102) | Last surviving C-47 Pathfinder pilot. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Russell Hamler | 1924 (1924) | 26 December 2023 (aged 99) | Last surviving member of Merrill's Marauders. | US Army | United States |
| Robert John Hanson | (1920-05-25)25 May 1920 | 1 October 2005(2005-10-01) (aged 85) | Last surviving crew member of Memphis Belle. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Reinhard Hardegen | (1913-03-18)18 March 1913 | 9 June 2018(2018-06-09) (aged 105) | Last surviving U-boat captain. | Kriegsmarine | Germany |
| Lloyd Harding | 1922 | 2 February 2021 (aged 99) | Last surviving member of Tasmania's 2/40th Battalion. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Shunroku Hata | (1879-07-26)26 July 1879 | 10 May 1962(1962-05-10) (aged 82) | Last surviving Japanese marshal (gensui). | Imperial Japanese Army | Japan |
| John Hemingway | (1919-07-17)17 July 1919 | 17 March 2025(2025-03-17) (aged 105) | Last surviving pilot of The Few. | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom |
| Ervín Hoida | (1918-11-30)30 November 1918 | 14 February 2024 (aged 105) | Last surviving Czechoslovak veteran of the Battle of France. | Czechoslovak Army | Czechoslovakia France United Kingdom |
| Ebou Janha | 1919 or 1920 | 1 July 2022 (aged 102) | Last surviving veteran of Gambia. | Royal West African Frontier Force | The Gambia |
| Vagn Baagø Jepsen | 1917 or 1918 | 1 September 2018 (aged 100) | Last surviving Danish veteran of the Battle of Haderslev. | Royal Danish Army | Denmark |
| James Jeremiah | 1924 or 1925 | 30 June 2022 (aged 97) | Last surviving veteran of Malaysia. | Straits Settlements Volunteer Force | Malaya |
| Ellsworth Johnson | (1923-07-05)5 July 1923 | 30 September 2023(2023-09-30) (aged 100) | Last surviving member of the OSS OG. | Office of Strategic Services | United States |
| Johnny Johnson | (1921-11-25)25 November 1921 | 7 December 2022(2022-12-07) (aged 101) | Last surviving member of the Dambuster Raids. | Royal Air Force | United Kingdom |
| Ari Wong Kim | (1924-01-16)16 January 1924 | 19 October 2023(2023-10-19) (aged 99) | Last surviving veteran of French Polynesia. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Jiří Pavel Kafka [cz] | (1924-05-02) 2 May 1924 (age 100) | | Last surviving Czechoslovak RAF airman. | Royal Air Force | Czechoslovakia United Kingdom |
| Norman Kleiss | (1916-03-07)7 March 1916 | 22 April 2016(2016-04-22) (aged 100) | Last surviving Battle of Midway dive bomber pilot. | US Navy | United States |
| Gertrud Koch | (1924-06-01)1 June 1924 | 21 June 2016(2016-06-21) (aged 92) | Last surviving member of the Edelweiss Pirates. | German Resistance movement | Germany |
| Leon Kopelman | (1924-04-26)26 April 1924 | 13 August 2021(2021-08-13) (aged 97) | Last surviving fighter of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) | Poland |
| Ilmari Koppinen | (1918-01-08) 8 January 1918 (age 107) | | Last surviving Finnish veteran of the Mai Guba attack. | Finnish Army | Finland |
| Roelof Korporaal | (1919-03-25)25 March 1919 | 26 January 2014(2014-01-26) (aged 94) | Last surviving Dutch veteran of the Battle of the Afsluitdijk. | Royal Netherlands Army | Netherlands |
| Albert Kunyuku [fr] | (1922-05-10)10 May 1922 | 25 November 2022(2022-11-25) (aged 100) | Last surviving veteran of the Belgian Congo. | Force Publique | Belgian Congo |
| Juliusz Kulesza | (1928-05-19)19 May 1928 | 5 February 2025(2025-02-05) (aged 96) | Last surviving participant in the Battles for the Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW) rebound. | Polish Home Army | Polish Underground State |
| Petr Kotelnikov | 1929 | 21 April 2021(2021-04-21) (aged 91–92) | Last surviving Soviet veteran of the Defense of Brest Fortress. | Red Army | Soviet Union |
| Boris Kravtsov | (1922-12-28) 28 December 1922 (age 102) | | Last surviving wartime Hero of the Soviet Union. | Red Army | Soviet Union |
| Traute Lafrenz | (1919-05-03)3 May 1919 | 6 March 2023(2023-03-06) (aged 103) | Last surviving White Rose. | German Resistance movement | Germany |
| Sakari Lahtinen | (1923-09-29)29 September 1923 | 12 October 2022(2022-10-12) (aged 99) | Last surviving Finnish Waffen-SS volunteer. | Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS | Finland Germany |
| Robert Henry Andrew Lapsley | 1921 (1921) | 2 July 2024 (aged 103) | Last surviving veteran of Hong Kong. | British Army | Hong Kong United Kingdom |
| Phyllis Latour | (1921-04-08)8 April 1921 | 7 October 2023(2023-10-07) (aged 102) | Last surviving woman SOE agent to serve in France. | WAAF, SOE, French Resistance | United Kingdom Free France |
| Havala Laula | 1914 or 1915 | 9 February 2017(2017-02-09) (aged 91–92) | Last surviving Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Robert Laumans | 1920 | April 2014 (aged 93) | Last surviving Belgian RAF pilot. | Royal Air Force | Belgium United Kingdom |
| Lee Hak-rae | 1925 (1925) | 28 March 2021 (aged 96) | Last surviving convicted Korean war criminal. | Imperial Japanese Army | Japan |
| William R. Leibold | (1923-04-04)4 April 1923 | 3 November 2022(2022-11-03) (aged 99) | Last surviving sailor of USS Tang. | US Navy | United States |
| Charles W. Lindberg | (1920-06-26)26 June 1920 | 24 June 2007(2007-06-24) (aged 86) | Last surviving participant of the original Iwo Jima flag raising. | US Marine Corps | United States |
| Jan Linzel [nl] | (1915-12-07)7 December 1915 | 5 May 2019(2019-05-05) (aged 103) | Last surviving Dutch pilot of the Battle for The Hague. | Army Aviation Brigade | Netherlands |
| Choi Lodthanong | 1920 or 1921 | 2 June 2021 (aged 100 or 101) | Last surviving Thai veteran of the Battle of Prachuap Khiri Khan. | Royal Thai Air Force | Thailand |
| Frank Losonsky | (1920-10-08)8 October 1920 | 6 February 2020(2020-02-06) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of the Flying Tigers. | First American Volunteer Group US Army Air Forces | China United States |
| Jacques Lucien | (1924-05-04)4 May 1924 | 12 September 2024(2024-09-12) (aged 100) | Last surviving veteran of New Caledonia. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Mildred Dalton Manning | (1914-07-11)11 July 1914 | 8 March 2013(2013-03-08) (aged 98) | Last surviving Angel of Bataan and Corregidor. | US Army | United States |
| Ivan Martynushkin | (1924-01-18) 18 January 1924 (age 101) | | Last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp. | Red Army | Soviet Union |
| Petar Matić Dule | (1920-07-06)6 July 1920 | 4 October 2024(2024-10-04) (aged 104) | Last surviving National Hero of Yugoslavia. | Yugoslav Partisans | Yugoslavia |
| Mauri Maunula | (1921-06-02)2 June 1921 | 14 September 2024(2024-09-14) (aged 103) | Last surviving FAF pilot. | Finnish Army | Finland |
| Kenneth Mayhew | (1917-01-18)18 January 1917 | 13 May 2021(2021-05-13) (aged 104) | Last surviving recipient of the Military Order of William. | British Army | United Kingdom |
| Zoë Maynard | 1926 (1926) | 10 December 2018 (aged 92) | Last surviving female veteran of The Bahamas . | Auxiliary Territorial Service | Bahamas |
| Frank McGovern | (1919-10-01)1 October 1919 | 24 May 2023(2023-05-24) (aged 103) | Last survivor of the sinking of HMAS Perth. | Royal Australian Navy | Australia |
| Stenio Mezzetti | 1921 | October 2016 (aged 95) | Last surviving Italian veteran of the Battle of Cape Matapan. | Regia Marina | Italy |
| Michael I of Romania | (1921-10-25)25 October 1921 | 5 December 2017(2017-12-05) (aged 96) | Last surviving recipient of the Order of Victory. | Romanian Armed Forces | Romania |
| Marie Michajlovičová | (1921-08-22)22 August 1921 | 14 July 2022(2022-07-14) (aged 100) | Last surviving member of 1st Czechoslovak Independent Tank Brigade. | 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union | Czechoslovakia Soviet Union |
| Helge Milo | 1927 or 1928 | 27 March 2022 (aged 94) | Last surviving member of the Churchill Club. | Danish resistance movement | Denmark |
| John F. Miniclier | (1921-07-23) 23 July 1921 (age 103) | | Last surviving American veteran of the Battle of Midway. | US Army | United States |
| José Carlos de Miranda Corrêa | 1919 or 1920 | 15 September 2013 (aged 93) | Last surviving pilot of Brazil. | Brazilian Air Force | Brazil |
| Ben Moide | (1924-06-21)21 June 1924 | 30 December 2013(2013-12-30) (aged 89) | Last surviving veteran of Papua New Guinea. | Australian Army | Territory of Papua |
| Ujang Mormin | 1920 (1920) | 9 February 2021 (aged 100) | Last surviving veteran of the Battle of Pasir Panjang. | Royal Malay Regiment | Malaya |
| Teruo Murakami | 1920 (1920) | 14 September 2023(2023-09-14) (aged 103) | Last survivor of the Cowra breakout. | Imperial Japanese Army | Japan |
| Ali Nadi | 1925 or 1926 | December 2017 (aged 91 or 92) | Last surviving Moroccan Goumier. | French Liberation Army | Free France Morocco |
| Keiji Nagai | 1921 (1921) | 4 November 2019 (aged 98) | Last surviving Japanese veteran of the Battle of Peleliu. | Imperial Japanese Army | Japan |
| Roger Le Neurès | (1923-03-25) 25 March 1923 (age 101) | | Last surviving member of the 2nd Armored Division. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Chester Nez | (1921-01-23)23 January 1921 | 4 June 2014(2014-06-04) (aged 93) | Last surviving original Navajo code talker. | US Marine Corps | United States |
| Eugeniusz Niedzielski | (1923-09-01) 1 September 1923 (age 101) | | Last surviving member of the Polish 1st Armoured Division. | Polish Armed Forces in the West | Poland |
| Bent Nielsen | 1922 | 8 January 2022 (aged 99) | Last surviving member of the Holger Danske. | Danish resistance movement | Denmark |
| Harald Nugiseks | (1921-10-22)22 October 1921 | 2 January 2014(2014-01-02) (aged 92) | Last surviving Estonian recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. | Waffen-SS | Estonia Germany |
| Bolek Ostrowski | (1919-07-04)4 July 1919 | 17 March 2025(2025-03-17) (aged 105) | Last surviving member of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. | Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain | Poland |
| Henry Parham | (1921-11-15)15 November 1921 | 4 July 2021(2021-07-04) (aged 99) | Last surviving African American veteran of the Normandy landings. | US Army | United States |
| John Payne | 1924 or 1925 | 2023 (aged 98) | Last surviving British clearance diver. | Royal Navy | United Kingdom |
| Aleksander Pawelec | (1915-12-13)13 December 1915 | 4 February 2019(2019-02-04) (aged 103) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Kępa Oksywska. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Steve Pisanos | (1919-11-10)10 November 1919 | 6 June 2016(2016-06-06) (aged 96) | Last surviving pilot of the Eagle Squadrons. | Royal Air Force US Army Air Forces | United Kingdom United States |
| Auguste Plénet | 1924 | 29 October 2023 (aged 99) | Last surviving veteran of French Guiana. | French Liberation Army | Free France |
| Alex Polowin | (1924-04-15)15 April 1924 | 16 August 2022(2022-08-16) (aged 98) | Last surviving crew member of HMCS Huron. | Royal Canadian Navy | Canada |
| Carlo Poncia | (1922-12-27)27 December 1922 | 8 December 2023(2023-12-08) (aged 100) | Last surviving Italian veteran of the Battle of Nikolayevka. | Regio Esercito | Italy |
| Paul Priest | (1925-12-25) 25 December 1925 (age 99) | | Last surviving veteran of the Battle of Remagen. | US Army | United States |
| Tom Pritchard | (1921-08-24)24 August 1921 | 3 August 2024(2024-08-03) (aged 102) | Last surviving Australian veteran of the Siege of Tobruk. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Dick Ramsey | (1923-10-31) 31 October 1923 (age 101) | | Last surviving crew member of USS Nevada. | United States Navy | United States |
| August Rathke | (1925-12-21)21 December 1925 | 25 November 2022(2022-11-25) (aged 96) | Last surviving Norwegian veteran of the Norwegian Independent Company 1. | Special Operations Executive | Norway United Kingdom |
| Vasily Reshetnikov | (1919-12-23)23 December 1919 | 20 March 2023(2023-03-20) (aged 103) | Last surviving Soviet participant of the bombing of Berlin. | Soviet Air Force | Soviet Union |
| Willie Rogers | (1915-04-12)12 April 1915 | 18 November 2016(2016-11-18) (aged 101) | Last surviving original member of the Tuskegee airmen. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Joachim Rønneberg | (1919-08-30)30 August 1919 | 21 October 2018(2018-10-21) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of Operation Gunnerside. | Norwegian Resistance | Norway |
| Justus Rosenberg | (1921-01-23)23 January 1921 | 30 October 2021(2021-10-30) (aged 100) | Last surviving member of the Emergency Rescue Committee. | French Resistance | Free France |
| Eystein Røset | (1918-12-28)28 December 1918 | 24 December 2022(2022-12-24) (aged 104) | Last surviving Norwegian veteran of the Battle of Narvik. | Norwegian Army | Norway |
| Johanna Ruf | 1929 | 2023(2023-00-00) (aged 93–94) | Last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker: she was a 15-year-old nurse. | Bund Deutscher Mädel | Germany |
| Allan Russell | (1923-10-15) 15 October 1923 (age 101) | | Last surviving member of Z Special Unit. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Dinko Šakić | (1921-09-08)8 September 1921 | 20 July 2008(2008-07-20) (aged 86) | Last surviving commander of a concentration camp. | Ustaše Supervisory Service | Independent State of Croatia |
| Jorge Sanjinez Lenz | (1917-01-24)24 January 1917 | 24 August 2020(2020-08-24) (aged 103) | Last surviving Latin American veteran of the Normandy landings. | Independent Belgian Brigade | Belgium |
| Jack Shearer | (1921-09-07)7 September 1921 | 26 August 2022(2022-08-26) (aged 100) | Last surviving member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization. | US Navy | United States |
| Ignacy Skowron | (1915-07-24)24 July 1915 | 5 August 2012(2012-08-05) (aged 97) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Westerplatte. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Franciszek Skrzypczyk | (1918-11-30)30 November 1918 | 22 July 2022(2022-07-22) (aged 103) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Kock. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Edmond Schmickrath | (1924-04-06)6 April 1924 | 22 November 2023(2023-11-22) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of the Independent Belgian Brigade. | Free Belgian forces | Belgium |
| Clarence Smoyer | (1923-06-25)25 June 1923 | 30 September 2022(2022-09-30) (aged 99) | Last surviving member of the "Spearhead" 3rd Armored Division. | US Army | United States |
| Bill Sparks | (1922-09-05)5 September 1922 | 1 December 2002(2002-12-01) (aged 80) | Last surviving Cockleshell Hero. | Royal Marines | United Kingdom |
| Jan Stangryciuk-Black | (1922-04-19)19 April 1922 | 22 October 2023(2023-10-22) (aged 101) | Last surviving member of the Guinea Pig Club. | Royal Air Force | Poland United Kingdom |
| Erhard Stenzel [de] | (1925-02-05)5 February 1925 | 18 November 2021(2021-11-18) (aged 96) | Last surviving German member of the French Resistance. | French Resistance German Army | Free France Germany |
| Gene Stephens | (1918-07-13)13 July 1918 | 20 July 2018(2018-07-20) (aged 100) | Last surviving member of the Military Police Corps. | United States Army | United States |
| Nancy Stratford | (1919-06-12) 12 June 1919 (age 105) | | Last surviving Attagirl. | Air Transport Auxiliary | United Kingdom |
| Aleksander Tarnawski [pl] | (1921-01-08)8 January 1921 | 4 March 2022(2022-03-04) (aged 101) | Last surviving Cichociemni. | Home Army | Poland |
| Arsène Tchakarian | (1916-12-21)21 December 1916 | 4 August 2018(2018-08-04) (aged 101) | Last surviving member of Groupe Manouchian. | French Resistance | Free France |
| John Richard Thomson | 1923 | 7 October 2021 (aged 98) | Last surviving veteran of the Battle of the River Plate. | Royal Navy | United Kingdom |
| Heinrich Trettner | (1907-09-19)19 September 1907 | 18 September 2006(2006-09-18) (aged 98) | Last surviving general of the Wehrmacht. | Luftwaffe | Germany |
| Kazimierz Tumiński | (1920-09-30)30 September 1920 | 15 October 2020(2020-10-15) (aged 100) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Grodno. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Sualua Tui Masaniai | 1922 (1922) | 1 April 2019 (aged 97) | Last surviving veteran of American Samoa. | Fita Fita Guard | American Samoa |
| Warren Upton | (1919-10-17)17 October 1919 | 25 December 2024(2024-12-25) (aged 105) | Last surviving crew member of USS Utah. | US Navy | United States |
| Theodore Van Kirk | (1921-02-27)27 February 1921 | 28 July 2014(2014-07-28) (aged 93) | Last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay. | US Army Air Forces | United States |
| Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin | (1922-07-10)10 July 1922 | 8 March 2013(2013-03-08) (aged 90) | Last surviving member of the 20 July plot. | German Army | Germany |
| Aleksandr Vasilevsky | (1895-09-30)30 September 1895 | 5 December 1977(1977-12-05) (aged 82) | Last surviving wartime Marshal of the Soviet Union. | Red Army | Soviet Union |
| Herbert Wahler | (1921-12-10)10 December 1921 | November 2023(2023-11-00) (aged 101) | Last surviving member of Einsatzgruppe C. | Schutzstaffel | Germany |
| Józef Węgiel | (1914-05-30)30 May 1914 | 4 April 2018(2018-04-04) (aged 103) | Last surviving Polish veteran of the Battle of Mława. | Polish Land Forces | Poland |
| Henry Weldon | (1923-05-29)29 May 1923 | 5 October 2018(2018-10-05) (aged 95) | Last surviving member of Underwater Demolition Team 10. | Office of Strategic Services US Navy | United States |
| Hershel W. Williams | (1923-10-02)2 October 1923 | 29 June 2022(2022-06-29) (aged 98) | Last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor. | US Marine Corps | United States |
| Masamitsu Yoshioka | (1918-01-05)5 January 1918 | 29 August 2024(2024-08-29) (aged 106) | Last surviving Japanese airman who attacked Pearl Harbor. | Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service | Japan |
| Billy Young | 1925 or 1926 | 19 May 2022 (aged 96) | Last survivor of the Sandakan POW Camp. | Australian Army | Australia |
| Jozef Zawitkowski | (1922-02-20)20 February 1922 | 14 September 2018(2018-09-14) (aged 96) | Last surviving member of the Ojciec Jan unit. | Home Army | Poland |
| Gerard Zinser | (1918-05-31)31 May 1918 | 21 August 2001(2001-08-21) (aged 83) | Last surviving crew member of PT-109. | US Navy | United States |