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Toward the end of World War II, tunnels were dug through the rim of the crater for the placement of shore batteries to guard Honolulu Harbor and the south edge of Pearl Harbor. During the late 1890s, a committee recommended that the Punchbowl become the site for a new cemetery to accommodate the growing population of Honolulu.
USS Arizona "Operation 85" is a civilian lead initiative aimed at identifying 85 or more unknown American servicemen from the battleship USS Arizona which were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, who are interred in commingled graves and marked as "unknown" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl Cemetery, located 10 miles (16 km) away from the location of the wreck of ...
Defense department authorities say the remains of an Ohio sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday that Navy ...
As was previously planned, the crew remains that could not be identified, numbering only 33, would be reinterred at the Punchbowl Cemetery, during a ceremony on 7 December, that will coincide with the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 80 years earlier. [72]
The Oahu Veterans Council will sponsor a ceremony at 10 a.m. at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. The ceremony will include wreath-laying, a cannon salute and a missing ...
Francis “Bud” Hannon, a native of Middletown, Ind., will be buried in National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, according to the U.S. Navy.
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Robert Raymond Scott was born in Massillon, Ohio on July 13, 1915, and enlisted in the United States Navy on April 18, 1938. Machinist's Mate First Class Scott was assigned to USS California when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The unidentified remains were buried again at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. ... Pearl Harbor survivors will commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the attack on ...