11 minutes agoAbout 300 people who died in a World War II attack are identified
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(5 years ago)The remains of more than 300 sailors and marines who died when the ship “U n The SS Oklahoma” sank during the Japanese Army's attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor 79 years ago due to expert work at the “Offutt” in Nebraska. Six years of trying to identify 388 people who disappeared when the ship [...]
The six-year effort to identify 388 people, who disappeared when the ship was overthrown during the World War II attack, is ending this week after 338 were identified, the AP reports.
The PW/MIA Protection Accountability Agency has used DNA technology and other modern methods to identify the remains sent to “Offutt” after they were exhumed by the Pacific National Military Graves at Hawaii.
Anthropologists and forensic historians of the agency achieved their goal to identify at least 315 people, or 80%, of missing people and some other identifications may take place after the final test results are received, said Carrie LeGarde, anthropologist leading the project.
