HONOLULU — Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. Upton died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval base in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941, in an attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II. The then-22-year-old swam ashore to Ford Island, where he jumped in a trench to avoid Japanese planes strafing the area. There were an estimated 87,000 military personnel on Oahu on the day of the attack, according to military historian J. Michael Wenger.

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Persons: Warren Upton, Upton, Kathleen Farley, J, Michael Wenger Organizations: USS, Hawaii, Associated Press Locations: HONOLULU, USS Utah, Los Gatos , California, California, The Utah, Pearl Harbor, Utah, Ford, Oahu