US Remembers Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7

In this file image provided by the U.S. Navy, crewmen of the USS Nevada fight flames on the battleship, battered in the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Monday is the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

In 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared the December 7 attack as "a date which will live in infamy," with the U.S. declaring war on Japan a day later and entering World War II. More than 2,400 American sailors and others were killed in the sneak attack on what is now a U.S. island state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Now, Japan is a staunch U.S. ally and there are a fast-dwindling number of aging American veterans who fought in World War II.

A burnt B-17C aircraft rests near Hangar Number Five, Hickam Field, following the attack by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941.

However, a 110-year-old veteran — Frank Levingston from Louisiana — will be the guest of honor at the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Washington.

And the National Park Service along with the U.S. Navy will hold a memorial service at Pearl Harbor's Kilo Pier.

A view of the USS ARIZONA burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii Dec. 7, 1941.

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