Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

Did you catch the name on the breechblock?

I was reading that they still had (2016) 15,000 rounds of 16" in inventory and were soliciting bids to demil them.
 
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Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gom Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gomez Jr.
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Remains of Navy Storekeeper 2nd Class Gerald Clayton, of Central City, Nebraska have been accounted for on Sept.10.
Remains of Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gomez Jr., of Slidell, Louisiana have been accounted for Sept.19.

The DPPA announced Friday they had identified 2 sets of remains from the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB 37) sunk at Pearl Harbor. Remains were previously buried at the Punchbowl (National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific) in Honolulu. In 2015, agency personnel began exhuming the remains for analysis, using new DNA technology, to identify those lost.

(Oklahoma was the battleship that rapidly capsized after being struck by 9 aerial torpedoes, trapping 429 men below decks. She was later righted and being too damaged to return to service was sold for salvage. During the tow to the West coast she sank in a storm. Her exact coordinates were never reported and she remains lost.) bb

https://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/Salvage of USS Oklahoma.pdf
https://www.okhistory.org/kids/ussok2.php
 
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BarnBuster said:
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Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gom​
Remains of Navy Storekeeper 2nd Class Gerald Clayton, of Central City, Nebraska have been accounted for on Sept.10.
Remains of Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gomez Jr., of Slidell, Louisiana have been accounted for Sept.19.

The DPPA announced Friday they had identified 2 sets of remains from the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB 37) sunk at Pearl Harbor. Remains were previously buried at the Punchbowl (National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific) in Honolulu. In 2015, agency personnel began exhuming the remains for analysis, using new DNA technology, to identify those lost.

(Oklahoma was the battleship that rapidly capsized after being struck by 9 aerial torpedoes, trapping 429 men below decks. She was later righted and being too damaged to return to service was sold for salvage. During the tow to the West coast she sank in a storm. Her exact coordinates were never reported and she remains lost.) bb

https://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/Salvage of USS Oklahoma.pdf
https://www.okhistory.org/kids/ussok2.php
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I heard a story on NPR about them having new DNA tools that overcome the harsh embalming fluids the Japanese used on some of the POW dead. It is getting to the point, if they find a bone, they will find out who it was.
 
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This is a huge thing for the family members involved. My mother never stopped talking about the loss of her older brother and her hope he might be alive somewhere and finally that they would find his body. She told me about dreams she had where she would search the faces of returning sailors hoping to see him.
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My mother (rip mom) was engaged to a sailor on the USS Arizona, and he's still there, they never found his body.....
 
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