The real question is, why would you use a real guys name if you're going to fake it? Just make someone up. It's not like anyone would bother to look up a nobody, and if they did they'd just assume he wasn't anything special in the service when they couldn't find anything. Using a guy who's death makes the news is baffling.
He doesn’t look 98, you say?
It could be a different Ken Turner, of course, but….
The plot thickens. That would explain how young and spry the tank driver was.
The real question is, why would you use a real guys name if you're going to fake it? Just make someone up. It's not like anyone would bother to look up a nobody, and if they did they'd just assume he wasn't anything special in the service when they couldn't find anything. Using a guy who's death makes the news is baffling.