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Frank Tremaine, the reporter who filed the first eyewitness account of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, died on December 7, the 65th anniversary of the attack. He was 92.
He was a retired senior vice-president at United Press International and the Pacific bureau manager of United Press, a forerunner of UPI, in Honolulu on December 7, 1941, when he was awakened by explosions and anti-aircraft fire and saw black smoke rising from Pearl Harbour, about 12 kilometres away.
After World War II, he reported on the Japanese surrender aboard the US battleship Missouri and later became the news agency's first postwar Tokyo bureau manager and directed the agency's coverage of the Korean War.
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