Upbeat and outgoing, Platt was a familiar presence at veterans’ gatherings and San...
Pearl Harbor survivor Kenneth Platt marks his 101st birthday with a breakfast celebration at Jim's Restaurant on Hillcrest last May.Kenneth Platt, one of three Pearl Harbor veterans in San Antonio, died Wednesday evening at 101.
Platt died peacefully with his wife, Lorena, and son in the room at home about 7:30 p.m., hours short of his 77th wedding anniversary, a friend, Russell Minor, said. In his telling of the story, he described crawling under his bunk in response, but that detail was always accompanied by laughter. San Antonio’s other Pearl Harbor survivors — Heinz Bachman, a 100-year-old former Army staff sergeant, and Gilbert Meyer, 98, a retired Navy chief petty officer who has been in failing health — have scaled back public appearances in recent years. Neither made it to the luncheon.
The enemy planes came in two waves, sinking or damaging 21 ships. The USS Arizona, now a memorial in Honolulu, lost 1,177 sailors and Marines.
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