Monday, Aug. 02, 1943

Honor for a Sailor

Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November.

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