Two More USS Oklahoma Unknowns Identified: Russell Ufford and Eugene M. Skaggs

June 24, 2021,   Guidon "Missouri World War II seaman's remains id'd"    

U.S. Navy Seaman  2nd Class Russell Ufford, 17, of Kansas City, Missouri, died December 7, 1941, on board the battleship USS Oklahoma.  He is scheduled to be buried on July 16 in Salisbury, North Carolina.

He was identified February 11, 2021.  His identification was announced April 30, 2021.

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July 4, 2021, WTRF   "Remains of Navy sailor from W. Va.  stationed aboard USS Oklahoma finally accounted for."

Navy Signalman 1st Class Eugene M. Skaggs, 33, of Amsted, West Virginia.  He will be buried  in Riverside, California, on August 18, 2021.

--GreGen