Six Sailors Aboard USS Oklahoma Identified After Almost 80 Years

From the January 28, 2021, Connecting Vets site by Julia LeDoux.

The Defense POW/NIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)  has identified six sailors killed on the USS Oklahoma during the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.

In a release Wednesday, the DPAA announced that these remains have been identified:

Seaman 1st Class Gerald J. Bailey, 24

Shipfitter 3rd Class Robert E. Bailey

Fireman 1st Class Wesley J. Brown, 25

Water Tender 1st Class  Oliver K. Burger, 26

Fireman 1st Class  Beoin  H. Corzatt, 24

Radioman 3rd Class  Earl M. Ellis,  23

(I have to wonder about the names of the first two in this list.)

The attack on the Oklahoma that day resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen.  The majority of them were not recovered until years later and their remains were unidentifiable and they were buried together.  DNA is now being used for identification.

To date, the DPAA has accounted for the remains of over 200 of the Oklahoma Unknowns.

This Is a Wonderful Thing the Government Is Doing.  --GreGen