A Virginia sailor who died at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS California, has been identified and is returning home to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The remains of 19-year-old Navy Mess Attendant 3rd Class David Walker were accounted for on November 27, 2023.
Walker was one of 103 crew members on the California who died that day.
He attended I.C. Norcom High School and whose family lived in Portsmouth, Virgina.
His body was recovered but no identification could be made at the time. He was eventually buried as an unknown at the National memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
The burial will be at the cemetery on September 5, 2024.
--GreGen
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