Video: Sister accepts flag at Pearl Harbor sailor’s funeral
Mary Frye-McCrimmon was a small child when her brother, Neil Frye, was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. On April 3, 2025, she was there as he was buried at Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery in Spring Lake.
The United States will mark the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday, Dec. 7, as the number of Americans belonging to “the Greatest Generation” who lived through World War II diminishes.
The attack on Dec. 7, 1941, killed 2,403 service members, and civilians were killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the National Park Service. Five of the eight battleships, three destroyers, and seven other ships stationed at the base were sunk or severely damaged. More than 200 aircraft were destroyed – according to History.com.
The bombing led the U.S. to declare war on Japan the next day, when then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Dec. 7, 1941, would be “a date which will live in infamy.”
The U.S. defeated Japan in August 1945, days after launching atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Here is a look at some of the photos from that fateful Sunday morning.
Dec. 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor attack in photos
