Campaign to ID unknowns from USS Arizona reaches milestone

Campaign to ID unknowns from USS Arizona reaches milestone

After nearly 84 years, the USS Arizona’s unknowns could be one step closer to being known again. A civilian-led effort called Operation 85 has reached its goal of collecting enough DNA samples from the living relatives of the battleship’s crew to prompt the Defense Department to consider reexamining dozens of unidentified servicemen who were buried in Hawaii after the Pearl Harbor attack. Most of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on the USS A…