As part of Project USS Oklahoma, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency was given permission in 2015 to dig up the bodies and have the bones tested along with DNA.
Project USS Oklahoma works to account for those lost during Pearl Harbor decades later
and last updated 2021-06-01 16:50:03-04
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Technology is working to bring military families closure, even decades after their loved ones were killed in war.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is part of the Department of Defense, and they work to recover and identify military members who are missing in action, prisoners of war or not identified.
Many lives were lost during the attack on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
DPAA leaders say there were more than 390 military members they could not identify after their bodies were recovered; they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.