SEATTLE — Leo George Allard, a Navy first gunner’s mate who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and later became a familiar face at Pacific Northwest veterans’ events, died Nov. 7, 2025. He was 103.
His death comes as the number of living survivors of the 1941 attack dwindles to roughly a dozen, all over the age of 100.
This year’s remembrance marked the first time that no survivor was present at the ceremony, a stark reminder of the nation’s accelerating loss of firsthand witnesses to one of its defining historical moments…