The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, January 27, 2017

31 of 388 Unidentified USS Oklahoma Victims Identified

From the January 8, 2017, Providence Journal  "Veterans Journal:  USS Oklahoma sailors -- proper military burials 75 years later."

Thirty-five of the 429 sailors and Marines who died aboard the were identified afterwards.

Since most were not recovered until two years later, the bones of the rest were commingled in 61 caskets in 45 graves.

Because of DNA, recently the graves were dug up and examinations made.

As a result, so far, 31 of the 388 have been identified.

This effort began in January 2015.

This is the only right thing to do.  Thanks, U.S.A..

--GreGen

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