It has been 80 years since the beginning of the Pacific War in December.
The U.S. military has continued to identify the remains of the crew of the battleship Oklahoma, which was sunk by the attack on Pearl Harbor by the former Japanese army, by DNA analysis, but since more than 90% has been found so far, this month I decided to discontinue with.
On December 8, 1941, Japan time, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the former Japanese army in Hawaii targeted battleships and destroyers of the U.S. Navy, and the number of victims on the U.S. side reached 2,403 including civilians. ..
Of these, 429 crew members died on the sunken battleship Oklahoma, and most of the remains were buried in the National Cemetery in Honolulu without knowing their identities. I returned it to the bereaved family.
Over the last six years, we have identified 355, or more than 90%, of the 388 whose remains were unknown.
The remaining 33 people could not be identified, and the U.S. military decided that further identification would be difficult, and on December 8, Japan time, the task of identifying the remains was terminated at the 80th anniversary of the attack. rice field.
The remaining unidentified remains will be buried again in the National Cemetery.
On the other hand, the battleship Arizona, which suffered the most casualties in the attack on Pearl Harbor, is still sunk, and the remains are left on the ship, so the U.S. military has no plans to perform DNA testing, and some said. There are calls from the bereaved families to identify themselves.