From the October 14, 2022, 12 WIBW, Topeka, Kansas, "WW II veteran to be laid to rest in Junction City" by Alex Taylor.
The remains of Seaman 2nd Class Pete Turk will return home to Kansas and laid to rest at the Kansas Veterans' Cemetery on Monday October 17 at 10:30 am with full military honors.
Pete Turk was in the U.S. Navy and was killed in action on Sunday, December 7, 1941, while stationed on the battleship USS California. He was twenty years old.
In 2018, the DPAA exhumed the twenty-five USS California unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
Turk is the first USS California sailor to be indentified.
--GreGen
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