‘That day turned me into a man’: Navy corpsman who treated victims of Pearl Harbor attack dies at age 103

Harry Chandler, a Navy corpsman who witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 from a hillside hospital before rushing to take part in a watery rescue mission, died Monday in Palm Beach County, Fla. He was 103.

Chandler’s death leaves only 14 veterans of the attack known to be alive, according to a tally maintained by Kathleen Farley, president of the California chapter of Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

His death comes less than a week after that of Warren “Red” Upton, who died on Christmas in California at age 105.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce Harry Chandler, after a swift downturn over the past several days, passed peacefully at 5:08 pm ET,” Chandler’s family said in a statement published Monday by WPTV-5 in West Palm Beach. “We are gutted by this loss of our Pappy but comforted by the fact few have lived on Earth as fully and long as he did and now he is with many who passed before him.”