By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Getty Images
Their remains are currently buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. While it is common for the agency to disinter bodies in an attempt to identify them, these soldiers will not be identified. Instead, they will be reinterred in the sunken remains of the USS Arizona, to join over 900 men who remained entombed in the battleship.
Officials said that trying to identify the crew members would be a monumental task that was more difficult than previous attempts to identify the remains of soldiers on other ships who perished during World War II.
By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Getty Images
Their remains are currently buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. While it is common for the agency to disinter bodies in an attempt to identify them, these soldiers will not be identified. Instead, they will be reinterred in the sunken remains of the USS Arizona, to join over 900 men who remained entombed in the battleship.
Officials said that trying to identify the crew members would be a monumental task that was more difficult than previous attempts to identify the remains of soldiers on other ships who perished during World War II.
By Bill Galluccio
Photo: Getty Images
Their remains are currently buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. While it is common for the agency to disinter bodies in an attempt to identify them, these soldiers will not be identified. Instead, they will be reinterred in the sunken remains of the USS Arizona, to join over 900 men who remained entombed in the battleship.
Officials said that trying to identify the crew members would be a monumental task that was more difficult than previous attempts to identify the remains of soldiers on other ships who perished during World War II.
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