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DNA testing revealed the bone belonged to US Marine Captain Everett Leland Yager, who was killed in an aerial accident over Riverside County, California , in July 1951.
David Walker, who left his Virginia high school to join the Navy, was one of 50 Black mess attendants who died on ships that were attacked.
Edna Lee Ward walked into a newspaper office in Portsmouth, Va., early in 1942 carrying a picture of her son, who was in the Navy. He had been declared missing
On Dec. 7, 1941, the USS California, the flagship of the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, was moored on “battleship row” at Pearl Harbor when it was struck by Japanese torpedoes and bombs. The ship caught fire, flooded and sank over the course of three days, and 103 crew members were killed.
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David Walker was a 19-year-old mess attendant aboard the USS "California" when Japan launched its surprise attack