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.

Monday, July 26, 2021

Another USS Oklahoma Unknown Identified: Irvin Rice

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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