Defense department renews effort to identify victims in World War II explosion in Pearl Harbor’s West Loch
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Department of Defense has launched a new effort to identify the remains of service members ...
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Vass sailor to be buried near home decades after dying in the attack on Pearl Harbor
The remains of a Navy sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor will return home to North Carolina on what would have been his 104th birthday next month, according to the Navy.
He died in the attack on Pearl Harbor. After 84 years, he’s coming home to NC
Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...
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DPAA’s Enduring Promise to never forget the fallen reflected in Sailor’s identification after 75 years
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been described as an organization that keeps one inviolable promise — that the ...
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Remains of NC sailor who died at Pearl Harbor finally coming home
The remains of a North Carolina sailor who died during the Pearl Harbor attack will return home next month more than 83 years after his death. Petty Officer Neil Frye, a Hoke County native ...
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After decades lying unknown, USS Oklahoma sailor to rest at Arlington
John G. Connolly, the chief pay clerk who died aboard the USS Oklahoma in the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and became ...
Jessie Mahaffey, Survivor of Pearl Harbor Attack, Dies at 102
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...
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He died in the attack on Pearl Harbor. After 84 years, he’s coming home to NC
For decades, the 20-year-old’s remains went unidentified ... Frye hadn’t been in the Navy long before he found himself at Pearl Harbor, so the family knows little about his shipboard life.