From the July 23, 2021, WLNS 6 News "Michigan WW II sailor accounted for nearly 80 years later" by Izzy Martin.
On June 5, 2021, Navy Radioman 3rd Class Irvin Rice was accounted for according to an announcement released today by the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was among the 429 crewmen of the battleship USS Oklahoma who died that day.
For three years afterwards, the Navy made attempts to identify the unknown sets of bodies recovered. The remains of only 35 could be identified.
The unidentified remains were buried in 46 plots in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
He will be buried on October 2, 2021, in Berkeley, Michigan.
--GreGen
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