US EditionSoon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
With only 12 centenarian survivors remaining, extensive oral histories and archives from 535 survivors preserve the memory of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
- As survivors of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack fade away, their descendants and the public turn to other ways of learning about the bombing.
- The bombing has held different meanings for different people, highlighting the need for military preparedness, scrutinizing government actions, or focusing on individual heroism.
- Harry Chandler, a Pearl Harbor survivor, emphasizes the importance of being prepared and having better intelligence.
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84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor’s attack commemorated without survivors | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Veterans, dignitaries and community members gathered at Pearl Harbor today to mark the 84th anniversary of the surprise attack the pulled the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor remembrance marked without surviving veterans
“A date which will live in infamy” is a day to remember those who died in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It’s a day when at least one survivor attended the ceremony at the USS Arizona — except for this year. There are only 12 living survivors of the 1941 attack. None of them could make the trip to Hawaii. Only two made it last year. Survivors have been present every year in recent memory except for 2020, when the Navy and the National Par…
For the first time, no Pearl Harbor survivors attended the remembrance, as one of the last, Leo Allard, died at 103 in November 2025.
Leo G. Allard, one of the last Pearl Harbor survivors, died at 103 in November. The number of survivors has dwindled to roughly a dozen.
Without any survivors present for the first time, the Pearl Harbor ceremony is being held as its last centenarian witnesses face health problems. With testimonies preserved in historical archives, families and organizations are working to keep the memory of the 1941 attack alive.
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Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront.
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