Special Chair of Honor 2022: PO1 Leonard Roy Harmon

Special Chair of Honor 2022: PO1 Leonard Roy Harmon

by Tara Ross, August 31st 2021 – On this day in 1943, USS Harmon is commissioned. It was the first U.S. Navy warship to be named after a black American. The destroyer was named after Leonard Roy Harmon, a sailor who gave his life during World War II. Harmon was...