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, March 30, 2024

USS California Unknown David Walker Has Been Identified

From March 28, 2024, WVEC News "Over 80 years after he was killed in Pearl Harbor, a Portsmouth sailor will be laid to rest at Arlington" by Christopher Colette.

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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