Pearl Harbor, USS West Virginia sailor’s remains set to return home to NC

Pearl Harbor, USS West Virginia sailor’s remains set to return home to NC

SANFORD, NC (WOWK) -- The remains of a World War II sailor who was killed at Pearl Harbor while serving on the USS West Virginia will be returning home Thursday. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye was killed on December 7, 1941, on the USS West Virginia and his remains were recovered last summer, according to Terry McMillian, who is Frye's first cousin. Frye, who was born and raised in Vass, NC, was just 19 when he was killed in the attac…

Remains of Pearl Harbor Sailor From Vass Return Home

In the summer of 1940, Neil Frye, a young man from Vass, was 19 when he answered the nation’s call and joined the U.S. Navy.