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Pearl Harbor survivor who witnessed 1941 attack dies aged 105

With his passing, there remain only about a dozen survivors of the surprise attack, which killed just over 2400 troops and propelled the United States into the war

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Ira Schab; (right) Schab aged 21. PICS COURTESY/ X/@pacificparks

Ira Schab; (right) Schab aged 21. PICS COURTESY/ X/@pacificparks

World War II Navy veteran Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died.

He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs said that Schab died at home early Saturday in the presence of her and her husband. 

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