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.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Another USS Oklahoma Unknown Identified: Orval Austin Tranbarger
April 5, 2020, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader After 78 years, WW II seaman killed at Pearl Harbor to return to the Ozarks" by Claudette Riley."
Nearly eight decades after a U.S.Navy sailor from Missouri was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, he will return to his home town for burial.
Seaman 1st Class Orval Austin Tranbarger, 20, was from Mountain View, 100 miles east of Springfield. He was one of 429 crew men killed when the ship capsized and was one of the men whose bodies could not be identified when the ship was finally uprighted.
The unknowns were buried in groups at the Punch Bowl Cemetery in Oahu, but, dug up earlier in the 2010s and researchers are using DNA to identify.
He was identified September 18, 2019, and now will be returning to Mountain View to be buried with his family. The date has not been set yet.
--GreGen
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