14 Apr 2015

United States
  • US military announced that 388 unidentified remains those killed aboard USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor raid on 7 Dec 1941 would be disinterred from their current resting place at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States for laboratory work. It was hoped that modern DNA technology, among other advances, would lead to their identification. ww2dbase [Oklahoma | CPC]

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