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.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

USS Oklahoma Sailor James O. McDonald from Levelland Accounted For

From the October 20, 2021, KBCD 11 News .

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class James O. McDonald, 25, of Levelland, Texas, killed during World War II was accounted for on December 22, 2020.

He was on the battleship USS Oklahoma, moored at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor when it sustained several torpedo hits and capsized on December 7, 1941.

He will be buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on January 19, 2022.

--GreGen


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