Born in 1909, Brooks was one of 15 children and was raised in rural Louisiana and Mississippi. He was drafted into the U.S. Army a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor at age 31 when the military was still racially segregated.
source https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070789122/oldest-living-world-war-ii-veteran-dies-lawrence-brooks
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