From KRQE News 13 "Sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified, be reburied" by AP.
Machinist's Mate 1st Class Vernon Luke of Green Bay, Wisconsin, 43, died Dec. 7, 1941 on the USS Oklahoma. He was among the 400 sailors and Marines from the battleship buried as unknowns. Their remains were recovered after many months in the water making identification with existing technology impossible.
All were exhumed last year and attempts made to identify them with advance forensic science and technology will be used.
Vernon Luke is the first to be reburied.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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