From the March 18, 2016, KHON 2 News.
Navy Ensign Lewis S. Stockdale, 27, was from Anaconda, Montana, and he was one of the Oklahoma's unknowns. Bodies were recovered from the stricken ship from December 1941 to June 1944 and were interred at Halawa and Nuu Anu cemeteries.
In 1947, they were disinterred and transferred the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks where 35 remains were identified. The many unidentified were buried in 46 plots in the Punchbowl.
In 1949, they were all classified as "non-recoverable."
On June 15, 2015, they began exhuming those commingled bodies for identification.
--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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