Oldest Surviving US Veteran of Pearl Harbor Dies in California

Ray Chavez, 104, the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor, rings the Freedom Bell during the Freedom Bell Opening Ceremony and Bell Ringing at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 6, 2016. Wesley Timm/Handout/Reuters

The oldest surviving veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack that plunged the United States into World War Two died in California on Nov. 21, domestic media reported.

Ray Chavez, 106, died in his sleep early on Wednesday in a hospice in Poway, a community north of San Diego, his daughter Kathleen Chavez told the San Diego Union Tribune.