World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Dwight Emory Harken
Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Boston, Massachusetts
Honored By
Jeff McCulloh
Relationship
Neighbor
A surgeon with the Army Medical Corps, he completed ROTC at Harvard. He became an expert on battlefield heart trauma and surgery, removing shrapnel and debris from over 130 soldiers without a single fatality.