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Remains of up to nearly 400 unaccounted for service members tied to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor will be exhumed this year, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The hope is that most of ...
HONOLULU — Officials this month have started to exhume the unidentified remains of USS Oklahoma crew members killed in the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor as part of an effort to account ...
The battleship USS Oklahoma underwent salvage work until 1946, when a private company purchased the Oklahoma’s hull and attempted to pull it by tug to California. The battleship sank about 500 ...
(CNN) — Remains of up to nearly 400 unaccounted for service members tied to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor will be exhumed this year, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The hope is that ...
Inside an old aircraft factory, behind the glass windows of a pristine laboratory, the lost crew of the USS Oklahoma ... the long salvage operation, especially after the Oklahoma was righted ...
The remains of World War II sailors and Marines who died on the USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor will be returned for burial in Hawaii today. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) undertook the ...
Banks was 20 years old when he was assigned to the USS Oklahoma battleship, which was moored at Ford Island on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese aircraft attacked. Multiple aerial torpedoes struck the ...
Some 429 service members were killed, and others survived to fight back from the nearby USS Maryland, which also was under attack. WASHINGTON — The destruction of the USS Oklahoma came quickly.
The caskets contained the remains of some of the 388 sailors and Marines who were aboard the USS Oklahoma when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The remains have been buried in 45 ...