1966 Press Photo The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, as it is today.

Twenty-five years ago Hoyt McAfee, a roving reporter for several North Carolina newspapers, was in Honolulu. On the morning of December 7, 1941, he drove a naval officer friend to his ship, the Arizona, at Pearl Harbor. On the way home he stopped at a hilltop cafe near Pearl for breakfast. It was then, when 183 Japanese warplanes roared overhead, that the Pacific war began. McAfee was an eyewitness. He recalls the moment in this exclusive dispatch. The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, as it is today.

Photo is dated 1966.

Photo measures 9.25 x 7.5 inches.