07/03/2026
Norwich, GB 7 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

ELINOR OTTO, aged 104

Making her contribution to the war effort, she signed on as a riveter – and continued work until she was 95. The last of the Rosie the Riveters.

MASAMITSU YOSHIOKA, aged 106

LAST OF THE PEARL HARBOUR ATTACKERS Masamitsu was born in Noromachi Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan in 1918. At the age of eighteen, he joined the Japanese Navy, working as ground crew on biplanes. Masamitsu was […]

MURIEL ENGELMAN, aged 101

A nurse in the US Army, she worked in a field hospital experienced D-Day and The Battle of the Bulge and was often in great danger and had a Christmas nightmare