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USS. Oklahoma. (BB-37) 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). [1] USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada -class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a ...
Burial at sea. Burial at sea for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943. Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft. It is regularly performed by navies, and is done by private citizens in many countries.
The Oklahoma wasn't flipped over until 1944, when the sailors' remains were recovered. They were disinterred and buried in 61 caskets and 45 graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ...
The project came on the heels of the agency’s success identifying the remains of 362 of the 394 missing sailors from the USS Oklahoma – another ship heavily damaged in the Pearl Harbor attack.
Years before her death last summer at the age of 85, Lois Woodburn cornered a mortician at a party to ask if she could be buried in the ocean. Lots of people want their cremated remains scattered ...
The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' involvement in World War II.
Ossuary. An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
Tacoma-raised sailor comes home from WWII 83 years later. He’ll be buried Sept. 11. Deep in the veterans’ section of Mountain View Memorial Park in Lakewood is a grave marker for Ralph H. Keil ...