Monday, March 30, 2020 8:36:50 PM
‘Unknown’ No More: USS Oklahoma Sailor Laid To Rest With Full Honors;
NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, Hawaii — A 20-year-old sailor who died Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on the USS Oklahoma and then lay a half-century in a grave for unknown dead, was buried with full military honors Tuesday in Hawaii.
Seaman 2nd Class Hubert P. Hall was laid to rest in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl, in Honolulu under overcast skies and steady rain. A Navy honor guard fired a rifle salute, followed by the somber sound of taps.
His remains had once been among the estimated 388 individuals buried in 46 graves of the unknown at Punchbowl — all taken from the Oklahoma after it was destroyed and sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers during the surprise attack on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor. They were too badly burned, scarred or decomposed to be identified.
Hall’s marked grave is near the previous sites of those unknown plots, which were disinterred over the past decade for DNA identification work by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
(full story below);
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/unknown-no-more-uss-oklahoma-sailor-laid-to-rest-with-full-honors-in-hawaii-1.622794
Cheers Mate,
we've came a long way,
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Cheers
NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC, Hawaii — A 20-year-old sailor who died Dec. 7, 1941, during the attack on the USS Oklahoma and then lay a half-century in a grave for unknown dead, was buried with full military honors Tuesday in Hawaii.
Seaman 2nd Class Hubert P. Hall was laid to rest in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl, in Honolulu under overcast skies and steady rain. A Navy honor guard fired a rifle salute, followed by the somber sound of taps.
His remains had once been among the estimated 388 individuals buried in 46 graves of the unknown at Punchbowl — all taken from the Oklahoma after it was destroyed and sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers during the surprise attack on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor. They were too badly burned, scarred or decomposed to be identified.
Hall’s marked grave is near the previous sites of those unknown plots, which were disinterred over the past decade for DNA identification work by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
(full story below);
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/unknown-no-more-uss-oklahoma-sailor-laid-to-rest-with-full-honors-in-hawaii-1.622794
Cheers Mate,
we've came a long way,
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Cheers
Avast ye Mateys, a statement of plunder is not upon ye,
only missing sails & lazy seamanship upon thy keel.
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