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, October 18, 2021

Another USS Oklahoma Unknown Identified: Charles L. Saunders

October 8, 2021, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth,

The Defense  POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday October 8 that  the remains of Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles L. Saunders, 18, of Winnie, Texas,  was accounted for on February 11, 2021.

He was on board the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford's Island , Pearl Harbor, when the attack came December 7, 1941.

He will be buried December 7, 2021, in his hometown.

--GreGen


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