The Last Living World War II, The Medal Of Honor Recipients Hershel Williams Has Passed Away At 98
Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, the last living WWII America’s 63 living Medal of Honor recipients died yesterday, 29 June. He was 98-year-old and would be 99 on October 2nd.
He was the last remaining officer of the 473 American service members who received a Medal of Honor in WWII. Williams spent his final days with family at a hospital in his home state of West Virginia. Family members called on Americans to pray for him on Tuesday.
“As he lives out his last days, we welcome and appreciate any additional prayers lifted up on behalf of Woody and his family,” his family said in a statement on his condition at the time.
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“Friends and family of Woody Williams knew him as a West Virginia farmer’s son and the youngest of 11 children who dutifully supported his family after his father died,” they wrote in a statement through the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. “Fellow Marines knew him as the corporal who volunteered for a mission on Iwo Jima to clear a lane through enemy pillboxes that were destroying American tanks.”
