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Cleveland Dodge
A month after he re-emerged, the Navy officially transferred Cleveland Dodge from the sunken California to a Command responsible for Anti-Aircraft Shore Batteries.In other words, he was to continue the work he had been doing, but now it was official.
Excerpt of Muster Roll of U.S.S. California, February 1942
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When the job was done, Dodge was transferred to U.S.S. West Virginia, where he became a Signalman.Several months later, he was sent to the destroyer U.S.S. Owen, on which he remained for the duration of the war, taking part in many battles in the Pacific.
After the war, he married, moved to Levittown , and raised a family.He passed away on January 1, 1999 - the anniversary of the day on which his parents learned that he had returned from the dead.He was buried in Calverton National Cemetery .
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John Haughey
On January 26, 1942, much of Hicksville turned out to honor the town's first person lost in World War II.
Nassau Daily Review-Star
January 27, 1942
Over the preceding weeks, news from the Pacific had (unavoidably) been confused, and for many Hicksvillians, the confusion magnified the shock of the war's onset.They had watched as one local family's grief turned to joy, even while another's hopes collapsed into despair.
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By this date, it was known that a total of six servicemen from Nassau County had been lost on December 7th.Like PFC Haughey, two other soldiers died at the Hickam mess hall / barracks: one from Woodmere, and one from Mineola .The other three men lost were sailors, all of whom died in the U.S.S. Arizona.They were natives respectively of East Meadow, Roosevelt, and North Merrick .
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After the war, PFC John T. Haughey's remains were re-interred, high atop an old volcano in the peace and beauty of the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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Wherever they lie, may S1c Cleveland Dodge, PFC John Haughey, and all the rest of those who faced the attack on Pearl Harbor rest in peace.
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