Frank Buckles
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Frank Woodruff Buckles was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at age 16 and served with the 1st Fort Riley Casua
Buckles on March 6, 2008
Buckles upon his national service recruitment, aged 16 (1917)
A belt buckle similar to the one given to Buckles by a German prisoner in 1918
Buckles' future home, Gap View Farm, in the 1930s
Walter Breuning
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Walter Breuning was an American supercentenarian who lived for 114 years and 205 days and was, up to the time of his death, the oldest living man in the world and the third-oldest verified man ever, b
Frank Buckles
…at his home aged 110 years and 26 days. He was the second-oldest living man in the United States at the time of his death (114-year-old American man Walter Breuning, born in September 1896, died 46 days after Buckles). Buckles did not meet the criteria for burial at Arlington National Cemetery as he had never been…
Breuning at age 113 in 2010
Breuning in seventh grade, second from left, top row with blue "x", October 1907