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Youngest WWII Veteran ???

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Topic: Youngest WWII Veteran ???

Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: Youngest WWII Veteran ???
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2025 at 6:47pm

This may very well be the https://www.bernardfuneralhome.com/obituary/WilliamBill-Bihr" rel="nofollow -

If my math is correct, he was only 14-yr-old when Germany surrendered in May 1945 and barely 15-yr-old when Japan surrendered in September 1945.

He does look very young in one of his military photos.

It would be interesting to know where this guy ranks as youngest when the war ended.

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Posted By: Dorix
Date Posted: 12 Aug 2025 at 6:38am

When I was a kid I met a man who may have been the youngest B 17 pilot of the war. He was a very decent man and quite interesting.

Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 11:08am

Here’s a good read weblink about the B-17 air-crews. The movie, “Memphis Belle” is a must watch if interested.

https://blog.togetherweserved.com/b-17-bomber-crews-of-world-war-ii/" rel="nofollow - https://blog.togetherweserved.com/b-17-bomber-crews-of-world-war-ii/

Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025 at 3:03pm

My Dad was among the youngest draftees to actually see combat in WW2, he was born in July of 1925 and was drafted in late 1943. His unit, the 70th Infantry Division, reached France in late December of 1944, just in time for the Battle of the Bulge. He left some of his blood there, and a lot of German blood as well; he still had pieces of shrapnel working its way out of his legs up until he died in 1988.