Sank USS Utah: Last Pearl Harbor Bombardier Dies At 106

Masamitsu Yoshioka, the last known Japanese survivor of the air group that took part in the Raid on Pearl Harbor, has died aged 106. Yoshioka was a 23-year-old bombardier at the time and dropped a torpedo that sunk the unarmed battleship USS Utah (according to the Japan Times, this was by mistake). While The Japan Times doesn’t specify which plane he flew, it was likely a Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber. Among the Japanese aircraft taking part in the raid was also the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter.

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