The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Pearl Harbor Survivor Remembered in New Hampshire
From the February 27, 2017, New Hampshire Union-Leader "Pearl Harbor survivor from Rochester remembered" by Kimberly Haas.
Roland "Sonny" Dagon, 97, a Purple Heart recipient, died February 24, 2017. He was at Hickam Field with the Army Air Corps, that day. he remembered the Japanese planes flying in low and ducked under a nearby trailer until he realized the paint shop a few yards away was on fire.
He fled and was wounded by flying shrapnel.
He enjoyed sulky-racing until the age of 88.
--GreGen
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