On December 7, 1941, the USS Oklahoma was sunk during a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor entombing hundreds of servicemen. In 2015, Project Oklahoma began in an effort to identify 388 men whose remains were unaccounted for. Since then, 355 have been accounted for by the Defense MIA/POW Accounting Agency.
One of those men, Seaman 1st Class Maurice Spangler, born and raised in Defiance, Ohio, will be reburied in the National Cemetery of the Pacific, or "Punchbowl" on Hawaii on January 4, 2023.
On December7, 2021, in a ceremony at that cemetery, the remains of the 33 men who could not be identified by DNA were laid to rest with full military honors. In attendance were the families of both unidentified and identified sailors and Marines.
--GreGen
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