Pentagon To Officially Identify The U.S.S. Oklahoma Unknowns Killed At Pearl Harbor And Now Buried At Hawaii’s National Memorial Cemetery

Time: Pearl Harbor’s ‘Unknown’ Dead to Be Exhumed and Identified Using DNA

"We will do so with dignity, respect and care”

The Pentagon said Tuesday that the bodies of up to 388 troops killed during the Pearl Harbor attacks, who are buried in “unknown” graves in Hawaii, will be disinterred and identified using the latest DNA technology.

Japanese torpedoes sank the U.S.S. Oklahoma, killing 429 servicemen, during the infamous offensive of December 1941. The sailors and Marines are entombed in Hawaii’s National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, but will be examined at the Hawaii laboratory of the Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Accounting Agency after families were notified Tuesday morning.

WNU Editor: Some family members want closure, and for that I feel comfortable to support this new policy. But will this eventually mean more exhumations and identifications at other cemeteries .... probably.

More News On Identifying The Dead From The U.S.S. Oklahoma Killed During The Pearl Harbor Attack

Pentagon plans to identify hundreds killed in Pearl Harbor -- FOX News/AP
US to exhume remains of Pearl Harbor dead for identification -- BBC
USS Oklahoma Pearl Harbor Victims To Be Exhumed: Department Of Defense Plans To Identify Bodies Of Sailors, Marines -- IBTimes
The scars of USS Oklahoma: Why the Pentagon changed its policy for exhuming human remains -- Dan Lamonthe, Washington Post