25/04/2025
Norwich, GB 12 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

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 […]

PHILIPPE DE GAULLE, aged 102

A war hero, admiral and politician who was denied deserved honours , his whole career and life was over shadowed by having an extremely famous father.

RICHARD BARANCIK, aged 98

An American soldier, he was part of the Monuments Men who rescued great pieces of art from the Nazis, before becoming a renown architect – the Last Man Standing