U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, and died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7.
A United States Navy seaman who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been accounted for decades after his death, military officials said Thursday. U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, a battleship moored at Pearl Harbor , in 1941. On Dec. 7, Auld was aboard the ship when Japanese pilots attacked Pearl Harbor .
The remains were disinterred and transferred to a laboratory, where 35 sets of remains were identified. The unidentified remains were buried again at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. The names of those who could not be identified were recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the cemetery. Between June and November 2015, those remains were again exhumed and analyzed at the DPAA's laboratory.
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