Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper
Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into forest fires across the Pacific Northwest set off by bomb-laden Japanese balloons, and who was believed to be the oldest surviving U.S. paratrooper, died on March 15 in Los Angeles. He was 108. His death, in a hospital,