After 74 years, bones from Pearl Harbor tomb ship may be identified

U.S. servicemembers from the Defense Pow/Mia Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a disenternment ceremony July 13. (SSgt. Jocelyn A. Ford/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency )

Dec. 7, 1941: A date that still lives in infamy

By Michael E. Ruane-December 6

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Inside an old aircraft factory here, behind the glass windows of a pristine laboratory, the lost crew of the USS Oklahoma rests on special tables covered in black foam.

Their bones are brown with age after 50 years in the ground and, before that, months entombed in their sunken battleship beneath the oily waters of Pearl Harbor.

After 74 Years, Bones From Pearl Harbor Tomb Ship May Be Identified by Thavam Ratna