U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye is finally home from Pearl Harbor and was laid to rest last week in North ...

A years-long journey of letters written, miles driven and dollars spent finally culminated in DNA confirmation that a Moore ...

A decorated North Carolinian, who was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, was laid to rest with full military honors. The ...

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil D. Frye, of Vass, North Carolina, was killed when his ship, the USS West Virginia, ...

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye died at age 19 during the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Thursday, he was ...

After more than eight decades, a Vass man killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 has come home. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye was aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia on ...

When torpedoes struck his battleship, Neil Frye was just 20 years old — a country boy halfway around the world from his tiny hometown of Vass, North Carolina, caught off-guard on an infamous day.

The service was held on April 3--which is his birthday. Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye was 20 years old when he died and was serving in a segregated branch. Frye worked in the Messman Branch ...

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, will be buried with military honors Thursday at the state veterans cemetery in Spring Lake. In later wars, families ...