US EditionUS aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor
DPAA will exhume 88 unknown USS Arizona sailors starting late 2026, using DNA from 626 families to identify remains and provide closure, agency said.
- The U.S. military plans to exhume 88 remains of sailors and Marines killed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery to identify them using DNA technology.
- About eight sets of remains will be removed every two to three weeks, and the DNA will be compared with samples collected from family members of missing troops.
- The identification effort follows earlier projects dating back a decade to use DNA for identifying Pearl Harbor unknowns from other ships like the USS Oklahoma and USS West Virginia.
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The federal agency responsible for identifying unknown U.S. military personnel has committed to exhuming the remains of the dozens of people on board the USS Arizona during the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. This decision by the Agency for the Accounting of Prisoners of War and Disappeared in Defense Action comes as a Virginia-based defense group, Operation 85, approaches the threshold imposed by the government for the collection of famil…
U.S. aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor
The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still lies where it hit bottom, with more than 900 sailors and Marines are entombed inside
US aims to exhume and identify the remains of 88 Pearl Harbor dead buried as unknowns
The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery. It’s…
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US aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor
The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery.
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