One of Few Remaining Survivors of Attack on Pearl Harbor Has Died at 102

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. Mr. Higgins died at home in Bend, Oregon, on Tuesday of natural causes, granddaughter Angela Norton said. Mr. 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....