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"Only 35 of the 429 sailors and Marines who died on the Oklahoma were identified in the years following the attack. The remains of 388 unidentified sailors and Marines were first interred as unknowns in the Nu'uanu and Halawa cemeteries, but were all disinterred in 1947 in an unsuccessful attempt to identify more personnel.[37] In 1950, all unidentified remains from the Oklahoma were buried in 61 caskets in 45 graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.[38]
In April 2015, the Department of Defense announced, as part of a policy change that established threshold criteria for disinterment of unknowns, that the unidentified remains of the crew members of the Oklahoma would be exhumed for DNA analysis, with the goal of returning identified remains to their families.[37]The process began in June 2015 when four graves, two individual and two group graves, were disinterred.[39]"
I didn't know this was going on. If this has been news and all over the place, I missed it. Thought it was interesting. 61 caskets for 388 remains back in 1950? Oh, but they made damn sure Roosevelt had his bathtub on the Iowa...
"Only 35 of the 429 sailors and Marines who died on the Oklahoma were identified in the years following the attack. The remains of 388 unidentified sailors and Marines were first interred as unknowns in the Nu'uanu and Halawa cemeteries, but were all disinterred in 1947 in an unsuccessful attempt to identify more personnel.[37] In 1950, all unidentified remains from the Oklahoma were buried in 61 caskets in 45 graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.[38]
In April 2015, the Department of Defense announced, as part of a policy change that established threshold criteria for disinterment of unknowns, that the unidentified remains of the crew members of the Oklahoma would be exhumed for DNA analysis, with the goal of returning identified remains to their families.[37]The process began in June 2015 when four graves, two individual and two group graves, were disinterred.[39]"
I didn't know this was going on. If this has been news and all over the place, I missed it. Thought it was interesting. 61 caskets for 388 remains back in 1950? Oh, but they made damn sure Roosevelt had his bathtub on the Iowa...
