WALLACE G. MITCHELL
April 26, 2021
The Defense Department POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class Wallace G. Mitchell, 19, of Los Angeles, killed on board the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941, was accounted for on December 16, 2020.
He will be buried on May 28, 2021, in San Diego.
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WILLIAM E. BLANCHARD
April 23, 2021
The DPAA announced today that the remains of 24-year-old Georgia sailor William E. Blanchard. He was from the tiny community of Tignall, near Athens, Georgia, and will be buried June 7 in North Carolina. On December 7, 1941, he was on the USS Oklahoma
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Three other Georgians aboard the USS Oklahoma have been identified in the last several years:
JOHN M. McDONALD of Cherokee County in 2018
ARCHIE CALLAHAN, JR. of Atlanta in 2017
JU;IAN B. JORDAN of Southwest Georgia in 2016.
--GreGen
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