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Officials using DNA analysis have identified the remains of a 19-year-old Virginian sailor killed in a World War II attack ... The ship was docked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when Japan ...
Pearl Harbor survivors will commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Saturday. Now that Auld has been identified, a rosette will be placed next to his name at the Courts of the Missing.
One family passes down lore of ancestor killed at Pearl Harbor. In 2019, the Navy reached Griffin's family to request DNA samples to help identify Hryniewicz's remains.
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]
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
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.
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.
In 1950, all unidentified remains from Oklahoma were buried as Unknowns in 61 caskets in 46 graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, [21] known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In 2003, a Pearl Harbor survivor, Ray Emory, conducted inquiries which resulted in the exhumation of a single casket associated with the Oklahoma loss.