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, October 24, 2020

Remains of USS Oklahoma Victim Rex Wise Identified


Kansas Public Radio

The remains of a Kansas man who was killed 78 years ago on the USS Oklahoma have been identified.

U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Rex Wise was just 21 when he died,  one of 429 who died aboard the Oklahoma that day.    He will be buried in April  near his home in South Haven.

The Defense POW/MIA announced that he was accounted for in the fall of 2019.

Welcome Home.  --GreGen

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