The United States' most established known WW2 military veteran, who was likewise thought to be the nation's most seasoned man, has kicked the bucket in Texas at 112 years old.
Richard Overton served in an all-dark armed force unit for a long time and was associated with battle activities and shoreline arrivals in the Pacific amid the war.
He was regarded on Veterans Day in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
He credited God for his long life - however he likewise said whisky and stogies had their influence.
"I been smoking stogies from when I was 18 years of age, I'm as yet a smoking them. Twelve per day," he is cited as saying by nearby TV.
He was in his 30s when he volunteered for the military, served in the all-dark 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion, and was at Pearl Harbor not long after the Japanese assault in 1941.
"He was there at Pearl Harbor, when the war vessels were all the while seething," Mr Obama said of Overton in 2013. "He was there at Okinawa. He was there at Iwo Jima, where he stated, 'I just left by the beauty of God.'"
"We got in the foxholes, and shots were coming over our heads," Mr Overton said in one meeting of one landing, thinking back about how he needed to clear dead bodies from the combat zone.
Conceived in 1906, he consumed the vast majority of his time on earth in Austin, and for his 111th birthday celebration a year ago, Austin City Council renamed the road he had lived on for over 70 years Richard Overton Avenue.
"With his snappy mind and kind soul, he contacted the lives of such a significant number of, and I am profoundly regarded to have known him," Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in an announcement on Thursday, calling him "an American symbol and Texas legend"
