A calm morning at Pearl Harbor turned to chaos as Japanese warplanes rained fire on the USS West Virginia. Engulfed in flames ...

27, 2024. On Dec. 7, 1941, Frye was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS West ...

Frye of Vass, NC killed aboard USS West Virginia during Pearl Harbor attack. (Photo: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) The ship sank to the bottom of the harbor. More than a hundred service ...

The USS West Virginia in 1944, rebuilt after sinking in ... shrapnel wound from an explosion on another battleship. While the ship sank, another mess officer named Doris “Dorie” Miller not ...

Frye was only 20 years old when he died on the USS West Virginia during the attack on Dec. 7, 1941, but his family spent a lifetime searching for him since then. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...