My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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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