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The Eye a Journal Star photo blog

by 12/7/12

Images of the attack on Pearl Harbor and its survivors

Survivors of the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii and their families gathered for ceremonies all over the United States to mark the 71st anniversary of the event that launched the United States into the Pacific theater of World War II.

File images of the attack are interspersed with photos of some of the Pearl Harbor Day commemorative ceremonies.

James Metcalf, of the U.S Navy, listens during the Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony at Northwest Louisiana War Veterans Home in Bossier City, La. on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Metcalf, was aboard the USS Selfridge during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/The Shreveport Times, Jim Hudelson )

 

FILE – This Dec. 7, 1941 image shows a Japanese Navy aerial view of smoking U.S. ships during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Japanese Navy)

 

Jim Bloom, a retired US Navy Captain, gives the keynote address as the State College American Legion Post 245 honor guard listen during a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day and ceremony at the Pennsylvania Military Museum, in Boalsburg, Pa., Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Centre Daily Times, Centre Daily Times, Nabil K. Mark)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, the destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Duane H. Reyelts drops flowers into the Mayport ship basin in honor of those who perished at Pearl Harbor during a ceremony remembering the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on aboard the USS De Wert on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, officers’ wives head to their quarters after investigating the sound of an explosion and seeing smoke in distance in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The two heard neighbor Mary Naiden, then an Army hostess who took this picture, exclaim “There are red circles on those planes overhead. They are Japanese!” (AP Photo/Mary Naiden)

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Ed Kmiec, 95, salutes upon departing the USS De Wert after a ceremony remembering the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on aboard the USS De Wert on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)

 

National Park Ranger Daniel Martinez, left center, bows his head in prayer in the shrine room of the USS Arizona Memorial Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Many of the Pearl Harbor Veterans gathered at the World War II Valor In The Pacific National Monument remembering the 71th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP File Photo)

 

The bow of the Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Michael Murphy passes by the USS Arizona Memorial Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Many of the Pearl Harbor Veterans gathered at the World War II Valor In The Pacific National Monument remembering the 71th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Armando Chick Galella, right, age 91, of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., tosses a wreath into the Hudson River during ceremonies at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. in New York, commemorating the 71st anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. President Barack Obama marked the day on Thursday by issuing a presidential proclamation, calling for flags to fly at half-staff on Friday and asking all Americans to observe the day of remembrance and honor military service members and veterans. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, a Japanese plane goes into its last dive as it heads toward the ground in flames after it was hit by Naval anti-aircraft fire during a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Sam Clower, left, of Sacramento, Calif. and Ab Brum, right, , retired United States Army Special Forces, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, share memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Many of the Pearl Harbor Veterans gathered at the World War II Valor In The Pacific National Monument remembering the 71th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

 

Pearl Harbor survivors, from left, Clark Simmons, of Brooklyn, NY; Aaron Cahbin, of Bayside, NY; Armando Chick Galella, of Sleepy Hollow, NY; and Chaplin William Kalaidjain, salute during ceremonies at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. in New York, commemorating the 71st anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. President Barack Obama marked the day on Thursday by issuing a presidential proclamation, calling for flags to fly at half-staff on Friday and asking all Americans to observe the day of remembrance and honor military service members and veterans. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

 

FILE – in this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, the battleship USS West Virginia, center, begins to sink after suffering heavy damage, while the USS Maryland, left, is still afloat in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. The capsized USS Oklahoma is at right. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, File)

 

Gigi Tanner, center, wife of Pearl Harbor survivor Robert Tanner, lays a wreath during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J. McCarthy)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors on a small boat rescue a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

 

Pearl Harbor survivors Max Green, left, and Bill Thornton greet each other prior to the Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Ceremony at the Va. War Memorial, in Richmond, Va. on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. The ceremony remembers those Virginians who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, people buy newspapers reporting the Japanese attack on U.S. bases in the Pacific Ocean, at Times Square in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin)

 

Charles Ellis, 90, who was serving on the USS Pennsylvania the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, was one of three Pearl Harbor survivors to attend the ceremony remembering the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on aboard the USS De Wert on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Bruce Lipsky)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 8, 1941 file photo, President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to a joint session of Congress in Washington after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

 

Pearl Harbor survivor Kenneth Adams, center, of Mesquite, gives a thumbs-up sign to Lt. Sidney Moon of the WE Greiner Leadership Cadet Corps during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J. McCarthy)

 

FILE – In this Dec. 15, 1941 file photo, Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn’t mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee was born in the U.S. (AP Photo)

 

Flower petals are tossed into the water at the USS Arizona Memorial Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor Veterans and their family members from all over the United States gathered at the World War II Valor In The Pacific National Monument remembering the 71th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

 

 

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