| Size: |
4.3 |
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| Basketball Courts : |
2 |
| Ownership : |
City of Boston |
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Doherty Park on Bunker Hill Street is named for Ensign John Doherty from Charlestown who was a bomber pilot aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) during world war II. Ensign Doherty and his radioman/Gunner Willian Evans Hunt were killed during the first counter attack by the US Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor. Ensign Doherty was awarded the Purple Heart and the Navy Flying Cross for gallantry. A World War II Destroyer was also named after Ensign Doherty.
The park itself, along with St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church next to it occupy the real Bunkers Hill while the battle monument sits atop the site of the 1775 revolutionary war battle site, the higher Breed's Hill.