Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis. To identify Young’s remains, scientists from DPAA used dental and anthropological analysis. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including Young.īetween June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S.

The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Young.įrom December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. 7, 1941, Young was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Young, 21, of Hawesville, Kentucky, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Aug. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin D.

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