Schab was a 21-year-old navy musician aboard USS Dobbin when Japan carried out surprise attack in 1941
A second world war veteran who was among the last survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor died on Saturday.
Ira “Ike” Schab, who served in the US navy at the time of the bombing, was 105, according to a statement from the USS Arizona Memorial, which pays tribute to military members who were killed at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
The memorial’s statement said Schab was at his home in Oregon when he “passed peacefully while listening to swing music, with his family by his side”. His death leaves only about a dozen survivors of a surprise attack that killed more than 2,400 US troops and preceded the country’s entry into the second world war.
In 2024, he attended the 83rd commemoration of the attack. But health issues prevented him from attending the 84th commemoration more recently, and he instead watched the ceremony on a live stream.
