After almost 80 years, remains of Navy sailor killed at Pearl Harbor identified
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Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Leslie P. Delles (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency)
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (Tribune News Service) The remains of a Navy sailor from St. Charles killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered American entry into World War II have been identified, Defense Department officials announced this week.
The remains of Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Leslie P. Delles, who was assigned to the USS Oklahoma before the United States entered World War II, were identified on Feb. 12, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
After almost 80 years, remains of Navy sailor killed in attack on Pearl Harbor identified as St. Charles man Navya Gupta, Chicago Tribune
The remains of a Navy sailor from St. Charles killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered American entry into World War II have been identified, Defense Department officials announced this week.
The remains of Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Leslie P. Delles, who was assigned to the USS Oklahoma before the United States entered World War II, were identified on Feb. 12, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
A Tribune story from when Delles enlisted in March 1940 said he and his twin brother, Lester Delles, joined the Navy on the same day, as a way to each learn a different trade. Delles joined to learn aviation mechanics, while Lester Delles joined to study electricity, according to the article.
The remains of Leslie P. Delles, a Navy sailor from St. Charles killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered American entry into World War II, have been identified, Defense Department officials announced this week.
A U.S. Navy sailor who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 has been identified and is set to be buried in his Utah hometown, according to officials and a local report.
Project USS Oklahoma works to account for those lost during Pearl Harbor decades later
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Technology is working to bring military families closure, even decades after their loved ones were killed in war.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is part of the Department of Defense, and they work to recover and identify military members who are missing in action, prisoners of war or not identified.
Many lives were lost during the attack on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
DPAA leaders say there were more than 390 military members they could not identify after their bodies were recovered; they were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.