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The project came on the heels of the agency’s success identifying the remains of 362 of the 394 missing sailors from the USS Oklahoma – another ship heavily damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack.
A Marine rifle squad fires a volley over the bodies of 15 officers and men killed at Naval Air Station Kanoehe Bay, Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor raid the previous day. Picture taken December 8 ...
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II: Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Officials using DNA analysis have identified the remains of a 19-year-old Virginian sailor killed in a World War II attack more than 80 years ago, the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
He died on USS Oklahoma after it was torpedoed and sank in the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor. The circumstances of his death have been described as heroic, [1] and he is the namesake of two U.S. Navy vessels. He was also awarded a Purple Heart. His remains were identified and returned home after seven decades and an intense inquiry.
Minor damage, repaired at Pearl Harbor and Mare Island Moored at Berth B-16, Navy Yard Pearl Harbor undergoing engine repairs San Francisco: CA-38 Undamaged Under overhaul at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard berth B-17 Raleigh: CL-7 Damaged by torpedo, repaired at Pearl Harbor and Mare Island Moored at berth F-12, forward of Utah, aft of Detroit
One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.
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]