Sailors from the Navy Ceremonial Guard folds the flag as part of the military funeral honors with funeral escort for Navy Seaman 1st Class William Bruesewitz in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 7, 2018. On Dec. 7, 1941, Bruesewitz was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. After sustaining multiple torpedo hits, the USS Oklahoma quickly capsized and resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bruesewitz. From the Defense POW/MIA Accounting A
Sailors from the Navy Ceremonial Guard folds the flag as part of the military funeral honors with funeral escort for Navy Seaman 1st Class William Bruesewitz in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Dec. 7, 2018. On Dec. 7, 1941, Bruesewitz was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. After sustaining multiple torpedo hits, the USS Oklahoma quickly capsized and resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bruesewitz. From the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) new release: Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, from December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew from the USS Oklahoma. These remains were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries. In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Bruesewitz. In April 2015, the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a policy memorandum directing the disinterment of unknowns associated with the USS Oklahoma. On June 15, 2015, DPAA personnel began exhuming the remains from the Punchbowl for analysis. To identify Bruesewitz’ remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial (mtDNA) DNA analysis, anthropological and dental analysis, along with cir
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