From the October 10, 2021, Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Oklahoma) "Missing sailor's remains identified after 80 years: Carter County's first WW II casualty went down with the USS Oklahoma" by Drew Butler.
Nineteen-year-old Carter County resident Seaman 1st Class Billy Turner was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma that day in Pearl Harbor and died, listed as being missing in action for 80 years.
His remains were officially accounted for on October 1 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
He was born November 18, 1922, in Memphis, Tennessee, and moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma, with his family in 1926. Inducted into the U.S. Navy in Oklahoma City on January 4, 1940, he was sent to San Diego for training. On December 7, 1941, he was stationed aboard the USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor.
There are no known relatives of him still living in Ardmore, but Turner Street is named after him and the mural adjoining the Ardmoreite building depicts the USS Oklahoma in his honor.
The article did not say where he will be reburied.
--GreGen
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