Six More Are Identified
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.
• CPO Albert E. Hayden, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 7 December 2015.
• ENS Lewis. S Stockdale, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 15 December 2015.
• Seaman 2nd Class Dale F. Pearce, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 16 December 2015.
• PO1 Vernon T. Luke, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 17 December 2015.
• CPO Duff Gordon, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, US Navy, was lost on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor, HI. He was accounted for on 18 December 2015.
• CPL Kenneth R. Stuck, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army, was lost on 2 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 8 January 2016.
You’re no longer missing, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
Now you’re home. Rest in peace.
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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.
DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.
If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.
Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.
Category: No Longer Missing
Welcome Home Warriors
Rest Well.
Salute
Gentleman, it took some time, but the wait is over now. Welcome home, and may you Rest In Peace.
Fiddler’s Green has room for Sailors too.
Y’all can finally rest in peace.
So we heard about the discovery with respect to the USS Oklahoma a few months back.
Regarding the Chiefs, I pray someone will connect the dots, review reports and assemble all statements.
The Chiefs stood up on December 7, 1941. I know of and will carry to my grave these stories … One story of a Croation American I think of daily, he did more for my rate than every BT instructor that ever lived and he is the Chief’s Chief.
And I can not leave out Chief Flynn who died at a very young age of like in or around 100 + or – a few.
But, if we need to upgrade any awards … now is the time!
If you are not a Genuine Chief, you may not understand and if I had the explain, you would not get it.
USA, USMC, USCG, USAF senior dog types know were I am coming from on this so I will let it go there.
Bless them all now known and returned.
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.
Fair winds and following seas.
…and not rest until all are accounted for.
May these lost, but now found souls find their eternal peace.
A good cry does wonders and adds more to your heart.RIP