slot paraiso Warren Upton, Who Escaped Sinking Battleship in Pearl Harbor, Dies at 105
Warren Upton, the oldest survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the last surviving crew member of one of the ships moored there, the torpedoed battleship Utah, died on Wednesday in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 105.
The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. She said Mr. Upton had been treated for pneumonia.
Mr. Upton was serving as a radioman aboard the U.S.S. Utah on Dec. 7, 1941. He was below deck, reaching for his shaving kit, when the ship was struck in quick succession by two torpedoes at about 8 a.m.
royal888 slot“It was quite an inferno,” Mr. Upton, a resident of San Jose, Calif., told the San Francisco TV station KTVU in 2021. He added, “I went over the side then and slid down the side of the ship as she rolled over.”
The ship capsized within minutes. Mr. Upton and others left the ship and swam to Ford Island, adjacent to a row of battleships in Pearl Harbor. Along the way, he helped another shipmate who couldn’t swim.
They took cover in a ditch that was being dug for sewer pipes, he recalled in a video interview in 2018. “We were covered with fuel oil,” he said.
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