Philip Kahn fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima and WWII, and feared another pandemic in his lifetime. FMTNews
NEW YORK: A 100-year-old World War II veteran has died of the new coronavirus a century after his twin brother was killed in the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic, US media reports said.
Kahn and his twin Samuel were born in December 1919 and Samuel died of the Spanish flu not long after, the Long Island newspaper said, quoting his family. Kahn experienced coronavirus symptoms such as coughing before his death on April 17 and knew he might have it, Zysman told CNN.Kahn enlisted in the US Army Air Corps pilot training programme in 1940, and after the United States entered the war he served in the Pacific – at the Battle of Iwo Jima and later in the firebombing raids over Japan, Newsday said. He was awarded two bronze stars.“Soldiers get killed, but the civilians suffer, too, and the women and children suffer the worst.
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