USS Oklahoma remains return to Hawaii for burial on Pearl Harbor attack s 80th anniversary
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Buy PhotoSailors salute during an honorable carry ceremony for the remains of USS Oklahoma service members at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes)
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii The unidentifiable remains of 50 sailors and one Marine who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor were flown to Hawaii on Thursday and will be buried in Honolulu later this year on the 80th anniversary of the raid.
During an honorable carry ceremony near the joint base’s runway, Marine and sailor guards of honor carried 10 flag-draped coffins from a C-17 that had arrived from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska where the enclosed remains had undergone DNA testing.
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