Pearl Harbor commemorations - in pictures

A seaman plays taps at sunset during the internment ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivor Lee Soucy who died last year at the age of 90. Soucy wanted to have his ashes interred inside the USS Utah, his ship that sank during the surprise Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 Photograph: Marco Garcia/AP

US navy sailors give a 21-gun salute during a memorial ceremony on Ford Island in Honolulu, Hawaii Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force commander reads about how Japan planned the Pearl Harbor attack, which drew US into the second world war Photograph: Marco Garcia/AP

Pearl Harbor survivors wait for their tour of the Arizona Memorial at the World War II Valor in Honolulu, Hawaii Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Mal Middlesworth, vice president of Pearl Harbor survivors' association, salutes during a memorial service Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Visitors at World War II Memorial in Washington DC improvise a wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day after official commemoration services were cancelled due to heavy rain Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Pearl Harbor survivor John Chaoman points to a picture of himself in the water after the USS West Virginia was hit during the attack Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Wiilliam Muelhieb, left, president of Pearl Harbor survivors' association, and fellow seaman Mal Middlesworth present the memorial wreath inside the USS Arizona Memorial Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Pearl Harbor survivors walk onto the USS Arizona Memorial at the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Army veteran and second world war soldier Quentin DeNio, 92, of South Minneapolis, the American flag bearer for the Fort Snelling National Cemetery Memorial Rifle Squad, participates in the 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the Veterans Service Building in St. Paul, Minnesota Photograph: David Joles/AP

Pearl Harbor survivors Marvin Rewerts (89), right, Nelson Mitchell (91), centre and Darnel Rogers (91), left, at a commemoration ceremony in Phoenix Photograph: Ross D. Franklin/AP

Hundreds of people attended the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the World War II Valor in Honolulu, Hawaii Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Second world war navy veteran, Helen Coyte, raises her arms as the 108th Army band performs 'Anchors Aweigh' at the Pearl Harbor remembrance day ceremony in Phoenix Photograph: Ross D. Franklin/AP

Herb Weatherwax with fellow survivors during the memorial ceremony in Hawaii Photograph: Marco Garcia/AP

Bob Hodenson wipes off tears during a memorial ceremony in Sacramento, California Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

Seven USS Arizona survivors pose for pictures in front of a replica of the ship during a tour of the World War II Valor at the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii Photograph: Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Pearl Harbor survivors, with lipstick on their cheeks, courtesy of the Andrews Sisters styled group – the Liberty Belles – participate in a memorial ceremony in New Orleans Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP