Remains of USS Oklahoma Sailor from Grayslake (Ill.) Identified-- Part 2

The remains of the USS Oklahoma 's dead were found and gathered over the next three years as the ship was uprighted.  However, by then, there wasn't much to go on as far as identification and most were buried in group caskets.  One of these men was Herbert B. Jacobson of Grayslake, Illinois.

He was known as Bert to his many friends in Grayslake and trained at Great Lakes Naval Station in nearby North Chicago after joining the Navy.  He was then assigned to duty in Michigan and the Pacific after that.

The first group of dead from the Oklahoma were identified in 1947.  Thirty-five of them were id'd at the time.  Then in 2015, all of the rest of the remains were dug up and an ongoing investigation is being made using DNA and that is how Mr. Jacobson was identified.

--GreGen