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AJ Plotke, PhD

Asia-Pacific Directorate Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 590 Moffet St, Bldg 4077 Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI 96853-5530

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Asia-Pacific Directorate Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

27 October 2017

INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED

Service Branch Name Rank Date of Loss Status Number of Service 7 December GLENN, Arthur (NMI) 1610221 MM1c USN KIA 1941

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Machinist’s Mate First Class (MM1c) Arthur (NMI) GLENN first joined the service on 12 April 19171, reenlisted again in the U.S. Navy on 25 February 1939, and reported for duty aboard the USS Oklahoma on 7 March 1941.2 As part of the effort to check Japanese aggression, the U.S. Pacific Fleet conducted exercises in the waters off the Hawaiian coast beginning in May 1940. After the maneuvers the fleet remained in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, to provide a more forward presence than was possible from the U.S. west coast.3 The USS Oklahoma (BB-37) arrived in Pearl Harbor on 6 December 1940, one year and one day prior to the Japanese attack, and spent the next several months participating in exercises and conducting patrols.4

On the morning of 7 December 1941, a fleet of Japanese carriers launched formations of dive bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters against the vessels moored in the shallows of Pearl

1 “NMS-L “Request for Prosthetic Dental Treatment” for GLENN, Arthur, dtd 24 October 1933, Official Military Personnel File for GLENN, Arthur, 1610221, Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1789- 2007, National Archives at St. Louis, MO.

2 “Muster Roll of the Crew of the USS Oklahoma for the quarter ending 31 March 1941,” U.S. Navy World War II Muster Rolls, 1938-49, Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Navy Personnel, National Archives at College Park, MD.

3 Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal (Washington, DC: Naval History Division, 1968), 29.

4 Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), Naval History and Heritage and Command, Washington, DC, www.history.navy.mil.

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Harbor (see Figure 1). The attack decimated the ships and personnel of the fleet and took the United States into World War II. At the beginning of the 7 December 1941 attack, the battleship USS Oklahoma occupied berth F-5 outboard of the USS Maryland (BB-46) in “Battleship Row” off Ford Island (see Figure 2). The first torpedo hit to the ship occurred just before 0800 hours.

The USS Oklahoma sustained 429 casualties, quickly capsizing due to damage sustained from multiple torpedoes. According to a roster of USS Oklahoma casualties compiled two weeks after the attack, MM1c GLENN was listed among the missing; his status was subsequently amended to reflect that he died as a result of the attack.5

Pearl Harbor

Figure 1. Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. Image from Google Earth.

In the immediate aftermath of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma, rescuers worked to save crew members trapped inside the upturned hull and eventually freed thirty-two men. From 9 December 1941 through 27 June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of deceased crewmen. These remains were subsequently interred in two cemeteries: Halawa Naval Cemetery and Nu’uanu Naval Cemetery, the latter a pre-existing plot located within a civilian cemetery that was rapidly expanded due to the high number of casualties from the Pearl Harbor attack.

5 USS Oklahoma casualty roster, 21 December 1941, Casualty Assistance Branch, Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Navy Personnel, National Archives at College Park, MD; Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF) for GLENN, Arthur (NMI) MM1c 1610221; Record Group 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD.

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Most of the remains, thoroughly comingled and recovered during salvage operations, were not identified prior to burial and were therefore interred as “unknowns” at 52 separate burial sites. The remains represented as many as 400 individuals.6

Figure 2. The USS Oklahoma, located off of Ford Island, as indicated by the red arrow. Image from Our Call to Arms: the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Robert Sullivan, ed.

After World War II ended, the War Department assigned the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS), U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, the responsibility for the

6 Mildred Trotter, “Narrative,” 1 March 1949, General Correspondence, Geographic File, 1949-1950, RG 92, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, MD. NOTE: With the exception of one casualty, the men from the USS Oklahoma who were identified by the Schofield Central Identification Laboratory in the late 1940s were those men who had been buried in single graves, either under crosses bearing their names, or without a known association to the ship. See also the memorandum, “Re: History of the sinking of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and subsequent attempts to recover and identify her crew,” by Heather Harris, 1 March 2010, available via the U.S. Navy Personnel Command, http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/casualty/Documents/ POW%20MIA/USS%20OKLAHOMA%20(BB-37).pdf.

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Historical Report: Ship 221 (USS OKLAHOMA) recovery and identification of fallen U.S. service personnel in the Pacific Theater. In September 1947, members of the AGRS disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the Halawa and Nu‘uanu Cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii. The laboratory staff worked to confirm the identities of those buried with name associations and to make additional identifications of those who had been buried as unknowns. Ultimately, as a result of this work, only thirty-five men from USS Oklahoma were buried as identified individuals. The AGRS buried the unidentified remains known to have been recovered from USS Oklahoma in forty-six separate plots in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP).7 U.S. officials determined that those whose remains could not be identified would be classified as “non-recoverable,” including MM1c GLENN. In his case, this determination was made on 18 October 1949.8

In 2003, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) disinterred a single casket of unknowns from USS Oklahoma that was thought to contain the remains of five individuals, but in reality contained the partial remains of almost one hundred crew members from the ship.9 This disinterment revealed the complexity of USS Oklahoma “unknowns” cases and resulted in years of active, high level negotiations between the Department of Defense, the Service Secretaries, and the agencies responsible for accounting for service members from past conflicts.

In 2009, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Personnel Affairs directed that no more disinterments of unknowns associated with USS Oklahoma would occur until families of the unresolved service members had been located in order to request DNA samples for comparison against samples from the remains. He further directed that all case, medical, and dental records be collected.10 Upon reaching a designated threshold of family reference sample and document collection, JPAC advanced a plan for the disinterment of all additional caskets associated with the ship in 2012. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs declined to pursue disinterment, however, expressing concerns about disturbing the sanctity of the graves of the unknowns and reservations about the ability of the accounting community to make a significant number of individual identifications upon disinterment.

Responding to inquiries from surviving family members and third-party researchers, JPAC and the wider personnel accounting community contended that the extensive comingling required that all of the unidentified remains from the USS Oklahoma be disinterred and

7 NOTE: The AGRS buried the unknowns from USS Oklahoma in forty-six locations in the cemetery in a total of sixty-two caskets, with some of the locations containing two caskets in one burial site.

8 W. E. Marsden, “Sub: Non-Recoverable Remains of GLENN, Arthur (NMI) 1610221, MM1c USN” 18 October 1949, IDPF for GLENN.

9 NOTE: In January 2015, three elements of the Accounting Community – the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), and Life Science Equipment Laboratory (LSEL) – combined to become one agency, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).

10 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Robert J. Newberry, Memorandum for Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA), Assistant Secretary of the Navy (M&RA), Director, Joint Staff, 9 December 2009, Subject: Department of Defense (DoD) Policy: Identification of the Remains of The Unknowns from the USS Oklahoma (BB37), DPAA files.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources: Harris, Heather. Memorandum, “Re: History of the sinking of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and subsequent attempts to recover and identify her crew,” 1 March 2010. Individual Deceased Personnel File for GLENN, Arthur (NMI) 1610221, MM1c, Record Group 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD. Newberry, Robert J. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD), Memorandum for Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA), Assistant Secretary of the Navy (M&RA), Director, Joint Staff, 9 December 2009, Subject: Department of Defense (DoD) Policy: Identification of the Remains of The Unknowns from the USS Oklahoma (BB37) Official Military Personnel File for GLENN, Arthur, 1610221, MM1c, Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1789-2007, National Archives at St. Louis, MO. Sullivan. Robert, ed. Our Call to Arms: the Attack on Pearl Harbor. New York: Life, 2001. Trotter, Mildred. “Narrative,” 1 March 1949, General Correspondence, Geographic File, 1949- 1950, RG 92, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, MD. Wallin, Homer N. Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal. Washington, DC: Naval History Division, 1968.

Work, Robert O. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments, et al, 14 April 2015, Subject: Disinterment of Unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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Appendix 1: Casualty List for the USS Oklahoma

ADKINS, MARVIN B., 3813007 BREWER, RANDALL W., 2660013 ALDRIDGE, WILLARD H., 3422501 BROOKS, WILLIAM, 2874290 ALEXANDER, HUGH, O-56955 BROWN, WESLEY J., 3213316 ALLEN, STANLEY W., O-98621 BRUESEWITZ, WILLIAM G., 3000778 ALLISON, HAL J., 2873567 BUCHANAN, JAMES R., 4120807 ARICKX, LEON, 3214207 †BURCH, EARL G., 3213161 *ARMSTRONG, KENNETH B., 3803060 BURGER, OLIVER K., 2952575 ARTHURHOLTZ, MARLEY R., 288660 BURK, MILLARD JR., 2874063 ARTLEY, DARYLE E., 3857895 BUTTS, RODGER C., 1144738 AULD, JOHN C., 3115437 CALLAHAN, ARCHIE J., 2238062 AUSTIN, JOHN A., O-75565 CAMERY, RAYMOND R., 3760152 BACKMAN, WALTER H., 3285369 CAMPBELL, WILLIAM V., 2956897 BAILEY, GERALD J., 3931339 CARGILE, MURRY R., 2624922 BAILEY, ROBERT E., 2796445 *CARNEY, HAROLD F., 3212051 BALLANCE, WILBUR F., 3114397 CARROLL, JOSEPH W., 2582913 BANKS, LAYTON T., 3561940 CASINGER, EDWARD E., 3373351 BARBER, LEROY K., 3000785 CASOLA, BIACIO, 2232399 BARBER, MALCOLM J., 3001429 CASTO, CHARLES R., 3286365 BARBER, RANDOLPH H., 3001377 †CASTO, RICHARD E., 2834518 BARNCORD, CECIL E., 3421310 CHESHIRE, JAMES T., 2866681 BARRETT, WILBUR C., 3422188 CHESS, PATRICK L., 3859126 BATES, HAROLD E., 3420334 CLARK, DAVID JR., 3565851 BATTLES, RALPH C., 2723450 CLAYTON, GERALD L., 3165762 BAUM, EARL P., 3000781 CLEMENT, HUBERT P., 2619359 BEAN, HOWARD W., 2017360 CLIFFORD, FLOYD F., 3423274 BELT, WALTER S. JR., 3421720 COKE, GEORGE A., 3564982 BENNETT, ROBERT J., 3215298 COLLIER, WALTER L., 271385 BLACK, WALDEAN, 309444 †COLLINS, JAMES E., 2873764 BLACKBURN, HARDING C., 2874039 CONNOLLY, JOHN G., O-56698 BLANCHARD, WILLIAM E., 2682245 CONNOLLY, KEEFE R., 3001739 BLAYLOCK, CLARENCE A., 3564558 CONWAY, EDWARD L., 3718589 BLITZ, LEO, 3165446 COOK, GRANT C. JR., 3166631 BLITZ, RUDOLPH, 3165447 CORN, ROBERT L., 3932215 BOCK, JOHN G. JR., 3167160 CORZATT, BEOIN H., 2796462 BOEMER, PAUL L., 3371057 *CRAIG, JOHN W., 3466549 BOOE, JAMES B., 2671197 CREMEAN, ALVA J., 288850 *BORING, JAMES B., 2797693 CRIM, WARREN H., 2957000 BOUDREAUX, RALPH M., 2744120 CROWDER, SAMUEL W., 2868801 *‡BOXRUCKER, LAWRENCE A., 3761901 CURRY, WILLIAM M., 2949500 BOYNTON, RAYMOND D., 3114596 CYRIACK, GLENN G., 3285674 BRADLEY, CARL M., 3685552 †DARBY, MARSHALL E. JR., O-85165 BRANDT, ORIS V., 2916225 DAVENPORT, JAMES W., 2744106 BREEDLOVE, JACK A., 3213774 DAY, FRANCIS D., 2281420

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† DELLES, LESLIE P., 3000566 GILLIARD, BENJAMIN E., 2622730 DERRINGTON, RALPH A., 2427553 GLENN, ARTHUR, 1610221 DICK, FRANCIS E., 3933830 *GOGGIN, DARYL H., O-81925 DILL, LEAMAN R., 3165555 GOLDWATER, JACK R., 4134201 DOERNENBURG, KENNETH E., 3000328 GOMEZ, CHARLES C. JR., 2744929 DONALD, JOHN M., 2956926 GOOCH, GEORGE M., 3422506 DORR, CARL D., 2626136 GOODWIN, CLIFFORD G., 3422147 DOYLE, BERNARD V., 3166477 GOODWIN, ROBERT, 3421493 DREFAHL, ELMER E., 284507 *GORDON, DUFF, 1613815 DRWALL, STANISLAW F., 2581301 GOWEY, CLAUDE O., 3933293 DUSSET, CYRIL I., 2743981 GRAHAM, WESLEY E., 3114634 † DYER, BUFORD H., 2833370 GRAND PRE, ARTHUR M., 3214422 EAKES, WALLACE E., 3684387 GRIFFITH, THOMAS E., 2796467 EBERHARDT, EUGENE K., 2283257 GROSS, EDGAR D., 2716429 EDMONSTON, DAVID B., 3933801 GROW, VERNON N., 6620074 ELLIS, EARL M., 3468302 ELLISON, GUISINGER, DANIEL L. JR., 3859889 BRUCE H., 3857942 GURGANUS, WILLIAM I., 2719382 †ELLSBERRY, JULIUS, 2722289 GUSIE, WILLIAM F., 3000815 *ENGLAND, JOHN C., 101158 HALL, HUBERT P., 2874159 FARFAN, IGNACIO C., 4210512 HALL, TED, 311258 †FARMER, LUTHER J., 2871962 HALTERMAN, ROBERT E., 3000185 †HAM, HAROLD W., 3285278 FECHO, LAWRENCE H., 3286373 † FERGUSON, CHARLTON H., 2744578 HAMLIN, DALE R., 2998777 † †FIELDS, ROBERT A., 2624506 HANN, EUGENE P., 2832234 *FINNEGAN, WILLIAM M., O-58391 HANNON, FRANCIS L., 2915923 FLAHERTY, FRANCIS C., O-95690 HANSON, GEORGE, 3717045 FLANAGAN, JAMES M., 2684826 HARR, ROBERT J., 3000813 FLORESE, FELICISMO, 4979262 HARRIS, CHARLES H., 2744892 FOLEY, WALTER C., 2239531 HARRIS, DANIEL F., 2672976 FOOTE, GEORGE P., 3212545 HARRIS, LOUIS E. JR., 3115528 FORD, GEORGE C., 3214577 *HAYDEN, ALBERT E., 1727544 †FRENCH, JOY C., 3723209 HEAD, HAROLD L., 3422520 FURR, TEDD M., 3353713 HEADINGTON, ROBERT W., 3114448 GALAJDIK, MICHAEL, 3000679 HELLSTERN, WILLIAM F., 2990999 GARA, MARTIN A., 3721184 HELTON, FLOYD D., 3763366 HENRICHSEN, JIMMIE L., 3166556 GARCIA, JESUS F., 4210739 † † HENRY, OTIS W., 286441 GARRIS, EUGENE, 2238061 † GAVER, HARRY H. JR., O-6254 HENSON, WILLIAM E. JR., 3565883 GEBSER, PAUL H., 3830334 HERBER, HARVEY C., 3855448 GELLER, LEONARD R., 3562061 HERBERT, GEORGE, 2042717 GEORGE, GEORGE T., 4110260 HESLER, AUSTIN H., 3421245 GIBSON, GEORGE H., 3813371 HISKETT, DENIS H., 3166387 GIESA, GEORGE E., 2342937 *HITTORFF, JOSEPH P. JR., O-85168 GIFFORD, QUENTIN J., 3285366 HOAG, FRANK S. JR., 3858650 GILBERT, GEORGE, 2915545 *HOARD, HERBERT J., 3363433 GILLETTE, WARREN C., 3933371 HOFFMAN, JOSEPH W., 2795401

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HOLM, KENNETH L., 3288668 LARSEN, ELLIOTT D., 3683231 HOLMES, HARRY R., 2387233 LAURIE, JOHNNIE C., 2721832 HOLMES, ROBERT K., 284571 LAWRENCE, ELMER P., 2874141 HOLZHAUER, JAMES W., 2658844 LAWSON, WILLARD I., 2875104 ‡ *HOPKINS, EDWIN C., 2126429 * LEHMAN, GERALD G., 3003476 HORD, CHESTER G., 3421053 LEHMAN, MYRON K., 3166637 HRYNIEWICZ, FRANK A., 2125591 LESCAULT, LIONEL W., 2123271 HUDSON, CHARLES E., 3754272 LINDSEY, HAROLD W., 3822258 HULTGREN, LORENTZ E., 3857798 *LINDSLEY, JOHN H., 3003327 ‡ †HUNTER, ROBERT M., O-95961 LIVINGSTON, ALFRED E., 2916903 IVERSON, GLAYDON I., 3288652 LOCKWOOD, CLARENCE M., 3467086 JACKSON, WILLIE N., 1541609 LOEBACH, ADOLPH J., 2999437 JACOBSON, HERBERT B., 3003614 *LUKE, VERNON T., 3851099 JAMES, CHALLIS R., 2797788 MABINE, OCTAVIUS N., 2659389 †JARDING, GEORGE, 3167558 MAGERS, HOWARD S., 2875039 *JAYNE, KENNETH L., 2240191 MALEK, MICHAEL, 3003315 JENSEN, THEODORE Q., 3686010 MALFANTE, ALGEO V., 3759305 †JENSON, JESSE B., 3284950 MANNING, WALTER B., 2682384 JOHANNES, CHARLES H., 3288444 MASON, HENRI C., 2561650 JOHNSON, BILLY J., 3422593 MAUEL, JOSEPH K., 3167381 JOHNSON, EDWARD D., 3933288 MCCABE, EDWIN B., 2618471 JOHNSON, JOSEPH M., 3286832 MCCLOUD, DONALD R., 2659445 JOHNSTON, JIM H., 2744861 MCDONALD, JAMES O., 3562118 JONES, CHARLES A., 3166694 MCKEEMAN, BERT E., 3166665 JONES, FRED M., 3109636 MCKISSACK, HALE, 3556833 JONES, JERRY, 2746869 MCLAUGHLIN, LLOYD E., 3166678 *JORDAN, JULIAN B., O-059477 MELTON, EARL R., 2636153 † JORDAN, WESLEY V., 3212494 MELTON, HERBERT F., 2619263 †JURASHEN, THOMAS V., 3375436 MIDDLESWART, JOHN F., 305317 KANE, ALBERT U., 3563616 MILES, ARCHIE T., 3932589 KARLI, JOHN A., 3822239 MITCHELL, WALLACE G., 3822248 KEATON, VERNON P., 309484 MONTGOMERY, CHARLES A., 4050997 KEFFER, HOWARD V., 4121961 MULICK, JOHN M., 3214754 KEIL, RALPH H., 3858607 MYERS, RAY H., 3215202 KELLER, DONALD G., 2833695 NAEGLE, GEORGE E., 3000291 KELLEY, JOE M., 3822253 NAIL, ELMER D., 3422176 KEMPF, WARREN J., 3421180 *NASH, PAUL A., 2914062 KENINGER, LEO T., 3214267 NEHER, DON O., 3422187 KENNEDY, WILLIAM H., 3214397 NEUENSCHWANDER, ARTHUR C., 3282096 KERESTES, ELMER, 3285974 NEVILL, SAM D., 3557878 KESLER, DAVID L., 3165562 NEWTON, WILBUR F., 3760544 KLASING, WILLIAM A., 3373501 NICHOLS, CARL, 2661429 KNIPP, VERNE F., 3721115 NICHOLS, HARRY E., 3213806 †KVALNES, HANS C., 3288433 NICOLES, FRANK E., 3286513 KVIDERA, WILLIAM L., 3214378 NIELSEN, ARNOLD M., 3754182 KYSER, D. T., 3566248

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NIGG, LAVERNE A., 3167440 RYAN, EDMUND T., 2237737 NIGHTINGALE, JOE R., 3113980 SADLOWSKI, ROMAN W., 2125725 NIX, CHARLES E., 3372656 SAMPSON, KENNETH H., 3421699 OGLE, CHARLES R., 3372635 SANDERS, DEAN S., 2791923 OGRADY, CAMILLUS M., 3422564 SAUNDERS, CHARLES L., 3602696 OLSEN, ELI, 3214000 SAVAGE, LYAL J., 2386707 OUTLAND, JARVIS G., 2657929 SAVIDGE, JOHN E., 2237341 OVERLEY, LAWRENCE J., 3820643 SAYLOR, PAUL E., 2956907 OWSLEY, ALPHARD S., 2872488 SCHLEITER, WALTER F., 2833716 PACE, MILLARD C., 2955377 SCHMIDT, HERMAN, 3683763 PALIDES, JAMES JR., 3214694 SCHMITT, ALOYSIUS H., O-83472 PALMER, CALVIN H., 3287011 SCHMITZ, ANDREW J., 2656539 PALMER, WILFRED D., 3286471 SCHOONOVER, JOHN H., 3820249 PARADIS, GEORGE L., 3858039 †SCOTT, BERNARD O., 2657602 PARKER, ISAAC, 3469610 SEATON, CHESTER E., 3858719 † PEAK, ROBERT H., 314300 *SEDERSTROM, VERDI D., 98866 PEARCE, DALE F., 3423215 SELLON, WILLIAM L., 3686314 † PENNINGTON, RAYMOND, 316090 †SEVERINSON, EVERETT I., 3285260 PENTICO, WALTER R., 3723404 SHAFER, WILLIAM K., 3822823 PEPE, STEPHEN, 2063596 SHANAHAN, WILLIAM J. JR., 4110811 PERDUE, CHARLES F., 2579287 SHELDEN, EDWARD J., 2913403 † PETWAY, WILEY J., 2619271 †SILVA, WILLIAM G., 3751881 PHILLIPS, MILO E., 3718805 SKAGGS, EUGENE M., 2655757 PHIPPS, JAMES N., 3934261 †SKILES, GAROLD L., 3424472 PIRTLE, GERALD H., 3422560 SLAPIKAS, EDWARD F., 2237738 PISKURAN, RUDOLPH V., 2834494 SMITH, LEONARD F., 2384168 POINDEXTER, HERBERT J. JR., 2682231 SMITH, MERLE A., 3933239 PREWITT, BRADY O., 3422589 SMITH, ROWLAND H., 3812921 PRIBBLE, ROBERT L., 2744607 SOLLIE, WALTER H., 2717161 PRICE, GEORGE F., 3000811 SOLOMON, JAMES C., 3562770 PRIDE, LEWIS B. JR., 100159 SPANGLER, MAURICE V., 2916484 PUE, JASPER L. JR., 3602040 STAPLETON, KIRBY R., 3214998 RAIMOND, PAUL S., 3602038 STEELY, ULIS C., 2871188 RAY, ELDON C., 2955288 STEIN, WALTER C., 3721043 REAGAN, DAN E., 3467092 STEINER, SAMUEL C., 3468319 REGAN, LEO B., 2391740 STERNS, CHARLES M. JR., O-96113 RICE, IRVIN F., 3113355 STEWART, EVERETT R., 3758869 RICH, PORTER L., 3164394 *STOCKDALE, LEWIS S., 102095 RIDENOUR, CLYDE JR., 3600163 STOTT, DONALD A., 3214004 RILEY, DAVID J., 3000770 STOUT, ROBERT T., 3720786 ROACH, RUSSELL C., 2833700 †STOUTEN, JAMES, 3103576 ROBERTSON, JOSEPH M., 2797547 SURRATT, MILTON R., 2626004 ROESCH, HAROLD W., 3166238 *‡SWANSON, CHARLES H., 3929519 ROGERS, WALTER B., 3166332 TALBERT, EDWARD E., 2626013 ROUSE, JOSEPH C., 2624770 TANNER, RANGNER F. JR., 3423950 † RUSE, CHARLES L., 3813453 TAYLOR, CHARLES R., 284217

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† TEMPLE, MONROE, 3422575 WALPOLE, EUGENE A., 2835044 TEMPLES, HOUSTON, 2744854 WALTERS, CHARLES E., 2797032 TERHUNE, BENJIMAN, 3422628 WARD, JAMES R., 2797555 *THINNES, ARTHUR R., 3003167 WASIELEWSKI, EDWARD, 3114243 THOMPSON, CHARLES W., 3372637 WATSON, RICHARD L., 2744920 THOMPSON, CLARENCE, 1040142 WEBB, JAMES C., 3467795 THOMPSON, GEORGE A., 3859634 *WELCH, WILLIAM E., 2797554 *‡THOMPSON, IRVIN A. R., O-85173 WELLS, ALFRED F., 2383316 THOMPSON, WILLIAM M., O-110159 WEST, ERNEST R., 3214504 THOMSON, RICHARD J., 3602566 WHEELER, JOHN D., 3760252 THORNTON, CECIL H., 2722586 WHITE, CLAUDE, 2948177 †THROMBLEY, ROBERT L., 2240612 WHITE, JACK D., 3422529 TIDBALL, DAVID F., 3214489 WHITSON, ALTON W., 3857403 TIMM, LLOYD R., 3288624 WICKER, EUGENE W., 3564297 TINDAL, LEWIS F., 4134313 WIEGAND, LLOYD P., 3166775 TINI, DANTE S., 3287319 WILCOX, GEORGE J. JR., 2916413 TIPTON, HENRY G., 3467823 WILLIAMS, ALBERT L., 3373382 TITTERINGTON, EVERETT C., 3213741 WILLIAMS, JAMES C., 4143915 TODD, NEAL K., 3287704 WILLIAMS, WILBUR S., 2618872 TORTI, NATALE I., 4106295 WIMMER, BERNARD R., 2657458 TRANBARGER, ORVAL A., 3372860 WINDLE, EVERETT G., 3424560 TRAPP, HAROLD F., 4102861 WINFIELD, STARRING B., 4134987 TRAPP, WILLIAM H., 4102862 WISE, REX E., 3421715 TREADWAY, SHELBY, 2873947 WOOD, FRANK, 2797027 TUCKER, WILLIAM D., 3214421 WOODS, LAWRENCE E., 3563780 † TUMLINSON, VICTOR P., 3601838 WOODS, WINFRED O., 3560522 TURNER, BILLY, 3562203 WORKMAN, CREIGHTON H., 3213730 TUSHLA, LOUIS J., 3821617 WORTHAM, JOHN L., 2871702 UFFORD, RUSSELL O., 3423941 WRIGHT, PAUL R., 1345301 ‡ VALLEY, LOWELL E., 3002542 * WYMAN, ELDON P., O-102130 WADE, DURRELL, 2742557 YOUNG, MARTIN D., 2874306 *WAGONER, LEWIS L., 3423935 YOUNG, ROBERT V., 3166640 † WALKER, HARRY E., 2949808 YURKO, JOSEPH J., 2432239 WALKOWIAK, ROBERT N., 3002256 ZVANSKY, THOMAS, 2825240

* These are the twenty-seven individuals whose identifications were not approved in 1949. † Remains recovered and identified during the Return of the World War II Dead Program (1946- 1950). ‡Identified by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

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Appendix 2: Current Burial Locations of USS Oklahoma Unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Section/Plot Unknowns Present P 0989 X-55 A-G Nu‘uanu P 0991 X-232 ABDEFG, X-247 ABCEFG Halawa P 0993 X-217 ADFG, X-254 A-F Halawa P 0995 X-240 ABCDFG , X-263 B-G Halawa P 0997 X-216 ABDEFG, X-260 A-F Halawa P 0999 X-231 ABDEFG, X-242 ACF Halawa P 1001 X-242 BDE, X-243 CF, X-245 F, X-254 G, X-255 F, X-260 G, X-263 A Halawa P 1002 X-232 C, X-233 E, X-234 A, X-235 A, X-236 C Halawa P 1003 X-216 C, X-217 CE, X-231 C, X-237 C, X-240 E, X-241 BFG, X-265 B Halawa P 1005 X-234 B-G, X-245 ABCDEG Halawa P 1126 X-255 ABCDEG, X-257 ABCDEG Halawa P 1128 X-222 ACEFG, X-241 ACDE Halawa P 1130 X-233 ABCDFG, X-235 B-G Halawa P 1132 X-236 ABDEFG, X-237 ABDEFG Halawa P 1134 X-243 ABDEG, X-265 ACDEFG Halawa Q 0001 X-219 A-F Halawa Q 0002 X-230 A-G Halawa Q 0003 X-56 A-G Nu’uanu Q 0004 X-223 A-G Halawa Q 0005 X-256 A-G Halawa Q 0006 X-251 A-G Halawa Q 0007 X-262 A-G Halawa Q 0008 X-258 A-G Halawa Q 0009 X-228 A-G Halawa Q 0010 X-266 A-F Halawa Q 0011 X-239 A-G Halawa Q 0016 X-342 Halawa Q 0133 X-246 A-G Halawa Q 0134 X-238 A-G Halawa Q 0135 X-13 A-G Nu’uanu Q 0136 X-229 A-G Halawa Q 0137 X-184 A-G Halawa Q 0138 X-52 A-G Nu‘uanu Q 0139 X-253 A-G Halawa Q 0140 X-252 A-G Halawa Q 0141 X-259 A-G Halawa Q 0142 X-221 A-G Halawa Q 0143 X-220 A-G Halawa Q 0144 X-227 A-G Halawa Q 0177 X-97 Nu‘uanu Q 0323 X-244 A-G Halawa Q 0325 X-248 A-G Halawa

* The remains originally buried at P 1002 were disinterred by the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (now DPAA), and removed to the laboratory for forensic analysis and identification.

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Q 0326 X-249 A-G Halawa Q 0327 X-250 A-G Halawa Q 0495 X-299 A-U Halawa Q 0496 X-264 A-V Halawa

Q 000X-258 A-G Halawa

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