Another Returns
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US personnel.
From World War II
RM3c Jack R. Goldwater, US Navy, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 26 March 2018.
From Korea
• None
From Southeast Asia
• None
Welcome back, elder brother-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
You’re home now. Rest easy.
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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 DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.
On their web site’s “Contact Us” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.
If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA 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
Finally ID’d. Better late than never.
Welcome home, RM1 Goldwater. Fair winds and following seas.
My apologies, Ex-PH2 – but there was a typo in the man’s rank I didn’t notice until long after you made this comment. Goldwater’s rate was RM3, not RM1. It’s now corrected above.
No harm no foul, Hondo- he would have enjoyed the pay raise!
Welcome home, RM3.
Welcome home Brother. Rest in peace in your home soil.
Welcome Home.
Good photo of him here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56131610/jack-r-goldwater
also says that “Jack was not meant to be on duty that day but had taken a friend’s shift.”
Stand down, sailor. Welcome home. Rest easy.
Holden
This Sailor- 19 years older than me-to the day. Thank you, buddy. Semper Fidelis.