DPAA Expects to Identify 90% of USS Oklahoma Unknowns by Year's End
2 Jun 2021
Stars and Stripes | By Wyatt Olson
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii -- The Defense Department expects by year's end to have identified 90% of the exhumed remains of 388 sailors and Marines who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and were buried as unknowns in Hawaii.
"The identification of 338 individuals, to date, from the USS Oklahoma represents the first successful completion of a project of such scope and complexity," the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release Tuesday.
The agency spearheads the nation's effort to identify and account for missing service members lost during World War II and all subsequent conflicts.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/02/dpaa-expects-identify-90-of-uss-oklahoma-unknowns-years-end.html
