OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) – The man believed to be the last Kansas City-area
resident to survive the attack at Pearl Harbor has died.
WDAF-TV reports that 96-year-old Dorwin Lamkin of Overland Park, Kansas, died
March 17th. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Born in Wisconsin, Lamkin joined the Navy in 1940. He was a corpsman on the
USS Nevada when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7th, 1941.
Lamkin later served at several battles while on the USS San Francisco in 1943
and 1944. He was awarded several medals and citations.
He was the longtime president of a chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors
Association and helped lead the drive to create the Pearl Harbor Memorial Park
in Mission, Kansas.
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