WNKY 40 News
April 9, 2021
Nearly 80 years later, his remains have been identified.
Navy Seaman 2
nd Class Howard Scott Magers was aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma when Japanese forces attacked the naval base.
“There was 439 people that perished at Pearl Harbor and they were all buried in mass graves. So, they exhumed the bodies and took them to two different laboratories where they began the identification process. Scott ended up in Nebraska and has been there since 2015 as they have been identifying all of these bodies. The last we’ve heard, they have identified 329 so we have 100 more people to identify and I am so in hopes that will happen before the 80