Another USS Oklahoma Unknown to Come Home: Russell Roach

From August 3, 2021, News 5 ABC Cleveland  "Ohio Navy vet  who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor coming home for burial" by Canryn Justice.

Seaman 1st Class  Russell Roach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on January  27, 1924, but his hometown was Zanesville, Ohio.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in  1940 at the age of 16 and was stationed aboard the USS Oklahoma when the attack came.

Only 35 of the 429 mem who lost their lives that day were originally identified and the remainder were buried  in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 1950 as "Unknowns."

--GreGen