100 victims of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour identified after 76 years
Many of those identified have been buried in their home towns.
The US military has identified 100 sailors and marines killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour 76 years ago.
The milestone comes two years after the Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency dug up nearly 400 sets of remains from a Hawaii cemetery.
Officials exhumed the bodies after determining that advances in forensic science and genealogical help from families made it possible to identify the men.
The buried marines and sailors have been classified as missing since the Second World War.
The agency has said it expects to identify about 80% of the battleship’s missing crew members by 2020.
It said that it made the most recent identification last week.
Many of those identified have been buried in their home towns.
Others have been reinterred in Honolulu.
