Medal of Honor Recipient Dies at 100

Written By: Warren Mass  |  Posted: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

John William Finn, the last survivor of the 15 Navy veterans who received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, died on May 27 at the Veterans Home of California in Chula Vista. Finn, who retired from the Navy in 1956 with the rank of Lieutenant, was 100 years old.

Finn was a Chief Petty Officer and chief aviation ordnanceman, in command of a 20-man unit whose primary responsibility was to maintain the weapons of a PBY Catalina "flying boat" aircraft squadron at the Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station, Hawaii.

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