Last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that a Navy Seaman killed during World War II was identified as a Nebraska man.Officials said Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles A. Jones, 21, of Harvard, Nebraska, was accounted for on Sept. 28, 2020.”On Dec. 7, 1941, Jones was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Jones,” a release stated. The remains were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uana cemeteries in 1944. In 1947, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains and brought them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. At the time, only 35 men could be identified. The rest were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Related video: Iowa WWII soldier’s body returns home, 80 years after going MIAIn 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains for another attempt at identification. Scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.Jones will now be buried in his hometown. A rosette will be placed next to his name on the Wall of the Missing to indicate he has been accounted for.For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty officeat (800) 443-9298.
Last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that a Navy Seaman killed during World War II was identified as a Nebraska man.
Officials said Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles A. Jones, 21, of Harvard, Nebraska, was accounted for on Sept. 28, 2020.
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“On Dec. 7, 1941, Jones was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Jones,” a release stated.
The remains were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uana cemeteries in 1944. In 1947, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains and brought them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks.
At the time, only 35 men could be identified. The rest were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Related video: Iowa WWII soldier’s body returns home, 80 years after going MIA
In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains for another attempt at identification. Scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.
Jones will now be buried in his hometown. A rosette will be placed next to his name on the Wall of the Missing to indicate he has been accounted for.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office
at (800) 443-9298.
