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Photo # 80-G-398375: Lieutenant Commanders Harlan R. Dickson (right) and John L. Nielsen, circa July 1943.

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Lieutenant Commander Harlan Rockey Dickson, USN, (1914-1944)

Harlan R. Dickson was born in Columbus, Ohio, on 16 September 1914. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1936 and was designated a Naval Aviator three years later. During the first six months of the Pacific war, while flying with Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) from USS Yorktown (CV-5), he distinguished himself during the Raid on Tulagi and the Battle of Coral Sea in early May 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June. He subsequently served with four other scouting and bombing squadrons and took command of Bombing Squadron Eighteen (VB-18) in September 1943. Lieutenant Commander Dickson was killed in an aircraft crash in California on 5 February 1944.

USS Harlan R. Dickson (DD-708) was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Dickson.

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Photo #: 80-G-398375

Lieutenant Commander John L. Nielsen, USN
(left) and
Lieutenant Commander Harlan R. Dickson., USN

At the Navy Department, Washington, DC, circa July 1943.
Both men served in Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) on USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the early months of the Pacific War.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

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