One of the last survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack has died at 102
By Audrey McAvoy, The Associated Press
Mar 21, 01:07 PM
Pearl Harbor survivor and Navy veteran Dick Higgins died Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at his home in Bend, Ore. He was 102. (Joe Kline/The Bulletin via AP)
HONOLULU — Richard C. “Dick” Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, a family member said Wednesday. He was 102.
Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, on Tuesday of natural causes, granddaughter Angela Norton said.
Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes based at the Hawaii naval base when Japanese planes began dropping bombs on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
He recounted in a 2008 oral history interview how he was in his bunk inside a screened-in lanai, or porch, on the third floor of his barracks when the bombing began.
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