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.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Pfc. Walter L. Colllier, USMC, One of the USS Oklahoma's Unknowns Is Identified

From the November 3, 2021, 7 ABC Eyewitness News  "Remains from Pearl Harbor attack identified as Burbank Marine" by AP.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced that the remains of Marine Pfc. Walter L. Collier have been identified.  He was on board the USS Oklahoma that day in 1941.  His remains were identified in May.

He was from Burbank, California.

He will be buried December 8, 2021, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.

Earlier this year, the remains of a Navy sailor were identified as Petty Officer 1st Class  Charles E. Hudson of Stockton.

--GreGen

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