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.

Saturday, January 22, 2022

USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted for from World War II, Frank E. Nicholes

From Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Press release  August 27, 2020.

The DPAA announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Frank E. Nicholes, 24, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was accounted for on May 5, 2016.

He was onboard the USS Oklahoma when the attack came.

His name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing  at the Punch Bowl.  A rosette will be placed  next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

The Nicholes family has yet to determine a funeral date.

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He will be buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, on January 24, 2022.

--GreGen


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