Remains of Two Wisconsin USS Oklahoma Survivors Identified

From the Jan. 21, 2016, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Meg Jones.

When the USS Oklahoma sank at Pearl Harbor, 429 men died.  Many of them were entombed in the overturned ship for many months afterwards and their bodies were unidentified when it was finally uprighted.

The two Wisconsin people:

Petty Officer First Class Vernon T. lake, 43, of Green Bay

Chief Petty Officer Albert E. Hayden, 44, of Hudson.

In 2008, another Wisconsin sailor on the ship was identified, Lawrence Boxrucher, Fireman 2nd Class.

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