John Lawrence Donoghue, who survived kamikaze attacks and helped devise plan to move Chicago’s U-505 submarine, dies at 104

John Lawrence “Laurie” Donoghue (Provided)

John Lawrence “Laurie” Donoghue — a South Sider at heart, if not always by geography — had a unique perspective of two of the most powerful instruments of death that the Japanese and German militaries used against Allied forces during World War II.

Mr. Donoghue, a Navy engineering officer tasked with airplane maintenance, survived multiple Japanese kamikaze attacks that claimed the lives of 79 crew members of the aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid in late 1944.