Pearl Harbor attack survivors – in pictures

Bob Brunner Sr., 89, of Norfolk, Va. Brunner was a pharmacists mate in 1941. Brunner spent 21 years in the Navy and retired as a chief corpsman. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Dean Griffeth, 94, of Norfolk, Va. Griffeth spent 30 years in the Navy and then spent 25 years working at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. He was aboard the USS Phelps at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Eugene Brewer, 90, of Virginia Beach, Va. Brewer was serving aboard the USS Dale when the attack happened Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Eugene Gorman, 92. Gorman was a 3rd class petty officer aboard the USS Hulbert, a sea plane tender at the time of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack. He made the Navy a career and retired as a Warrant officer. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Ernest "Dave" Davenport, 90, of Virginia Beach, Va. Davenport was an aviation machinist's mate on a PBY 5 Catalina, a sea plane, during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Floyd Sparrow, 93, of Norfolk, Va. Sparrow was stationed aboard the USS Raleigh Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Frank A. Chebetar, 90. Chebetar was a cook aboard the USS Phelps at the time of the Japanese attack on US navy at Pearl Harbor Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Pearl Harbor survivor Lester A. Silva, 88, of Virginia Beach, Va. Silva was stationed aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit at the time of the attack Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Paul Moore, 90, of Chesapeake, Va. Moore was a seaman aboard the battleship West Virginia when it was hit by a Japanese torpedo at Pearl Harbor Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Pearl Harbor survivor Preston Parham, 89. Parham was aboard the light cruiser St. Louis during the Dec. 7, 1941 attack. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Ray Baer, 93, of Norfolk, Va. Baer was a Petty Officer 3rd class at the time of the attack Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

Wilfred Gagne, 89. Gagne was a signalman aboard the battleship USS Tennessee Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP

William H. Muehleib, 89, of Virginia Beach, Va. Muehleib served in the Army Air Corps and was a 19 year-old private stationed at Hickam Field at the time. He is the national President of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan) Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP