The stays of a Navy sailor who was killed within the assault on Pearl Harbor throughout World Warfare II has been recognized, the Protection Division reported Thursday.
Navy Fireplace Controlman 2nd Class Lawrence J. Overley was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, which was on Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor when Japanese forces attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, the Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company stated in a information launch.
In line with the Oklahoma Historic Society, the crew “did the whole lot they might to battle again.”
The ship finally capsized after being hit by a number of torpedoes, killing 429 individuals on board, together with Overley, the DPAA stated. The Los Angeles native was simply 21 years previous on the time.
In 1947, the Navy disinterred the unidentified stays of the Oklahoma crewmen killed within the assault from two cemeteries in Hawaii, and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks for identification, the DPAA stated. The laboratory was in a position to establish 35 of them. The 46 who had been unidentified had been buried in plots at Honolulu’s Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, which can also be referred to as the Punchbowl, and categorised in 1949 as “non-recoverable.”
In one other try and establish the victims, the DPAA in 2015 exhumed the unidentified stays of the Oklahoma crew from the Punchbowl. In July 2021, the company was in a position to make use of dental, anthropological and DNA evaluation to establish Overley, the DPAA stated.
Overley’s title is listed on the Courts of the Lacking on the Punchbowl, alongside the names of different lacking servicemembers. To point he was recognized, a rosette can be added subsequent to his title, the DPAA stated.
Overly can be buried within the Punchbowl on March 27, the company stated.