No and yes. From the 1st World War (1914-1918) there was no one left. From the 2nd War (1939-1945), however, around 5.2 million former participants still live. The last survivor of the first conflict, the British Florence Green, died at the age of 110 on February 4, 2012. She did not take up arms, but worked for two months as a secretary for the Air Force of her country – despite the fear of to fly. Discreet, she was only discovered in 2010, when researchers found her files, only with her maiden name. Among the ex-combatants, the last to die, in May 2011, was Englishman Claude Stanley Choules, aged 110 and with 41 years in the Navy under his belt. The veteran who died the oldest, in turn, was also British Henry Allingham, aged 113, in 2009. As the 2nd World War ended “only” 67 years ago, there are still many veterans alive. But the number tends to drop fast. Currently, an average of 900 conflict veterans die every day.
SOURCES National Association of American Veterans and US Department of Veterans Affairs
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