Column: Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor comes home to family at last
Daniel Harris will be buried Dec. 7 at Fort Rosecrans cemetery, 81 years after his death, thanks to USS Oklahoma Project, which identifies sailor's remains
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Daniel Harris will be buried Dec. 7 at Fort Rosecrans cemetery, 81 years after his death, thanks to USS Oklahoma Project, which identifies sailor's remains
On Dec. 7, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor, Daniel Fletcher Harris, will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. It will be an especially poignant day for three sisters and their family members who live in La Jolla, Calif.
Daniel Fletcher Harris was the chief fire controlman of the Oklahoma battleship, one of the first bombed when Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The remains of U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Walter Nies, a WWII soldier killed in a German POW camp, are being returned to South Dakota.
Now, after identifying the bones of the Blitz twins and almost 400 other men over six years from the USS Oklahoma in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the