USS Oklahoma sailor gets full military honors burial
Despite the passage of 79 years since his death and ongoing concerns about COVID-19, the Defense Department buried Navy Seaman 2nd Class James Monroe Flanagan with full military honors Friday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
It’s been an ongoing show of respect afforded crew members of the battleship USS Oklahoma who died on Dec. 7, 1941, were buried as “unknowns” at Punchbowl, and were more recently identified as a result of advances in science and, in particular, DNA.
A total of 429 USS Oklahoma sailors and Marines were killed in the Dec. 7 attack. Some were identified shortly after, but 388 were buried as part of commingled remains in 46 plots at Punchbowl.
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