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Remains ID d of 2 Indiana brothers killed at Pearl Harbor
U.S. military personnel spent 80 years trying to identify the brothers and other crewmen who were killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Credit: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Author: WTHR.com staff, The Associated Press Published: 1:01 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 1:06 PM EDT May 11, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS U.S. military scientists have identified the remains of two Indiana brothers who were killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday it had identified the remains of 24-year-old Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Harold F. Trapp and 23-year-old Navy Electrician s Mate 3rd Class William H. Trapp.
Sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attacks identified as East Tennessean
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Navy Fireman 1st Class Paul E. Saylor
and last updated 2021-05-11 14:38:30-04
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WTVF) â The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week the remains of a sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified as an East Tennessean.
Navy Fireman 1st Class Paul E. Saylor from Johnson City, Tennessee was accounted for on November 24, 2020.
The DPAA said Saylor was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was attacked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The ship was hit by multiple torpedoes, causing it to quickly capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine crewmen aboard the USS Oklahoma died in the attack, including Saylor who was 21 years old.
He was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. It took 79 years, but he s finally coming home to East Tennessee
The Johnson City native was just 21 years old when the battleship USS Oklahoma was attacked, killing him and 428 other crewmen. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 11:22 PM EDT May 13, 2021
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. An East Tennessee sailor who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has finally been identified and will be laid to rest in his hometown.
Navy Fireman 1st Class Paul E. Saylor of Johnson City was only 21 on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. He was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, moored at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, when the ship fell victim to the surprise aerial attack.
May 11, 2021
Sibley, Iowa A Sibley soldier who died more than seventy years ago is finally returning home.
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Army Cpl. Eldert J. Beek was 20-years-old when he was killed during the Korean War. The Sibley native’s remains were accounted for in April, 2020.
According to the DPAA, in late 1950, Beek was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action on Dec. 1, 1950, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. Following the battle, his remains could not be recovered.