Petty Officer 2nd Class Neal Radford hauled his baritone horn to the deck that sunny Hawaii morning, ready to roust his USS Arizona shipmates with the daily rendering of “Colors” — the playing of the national anthem at 8 a.m. sharp.
Eighty-five sets of remains recovered from the USS Arizona and surrounding waters are buried as "unknowns" in graves like this one because they could not be identified in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Kevin Kline is the executive director of Operation 85, a grassroots effort by USS Arizona families to network and secure DNA family reference samples so the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency can identify 85 sets of remains linked to the battleship that are buried as "unknowns" in a military cemetery in Honolulu. Kline, of Mount Vernon, Virginia, is the grandnephew of a sailor who was killed on the ship during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Stanley Kula, a cook aboard the USS Arizona, during a visit with his family in Omaha in November 1940. He was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Marine Corps Pfc. Donald Fleetwood (first row, third from right) was a member of the USS Arizona's champion whale boat team in 1941. All but two of the men in this photo were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941, including Fleetwood, who was from Iowa. Sgt. John Baker (standing, center) of Nebraska, the team's coxswain, did survive the attack, according to the website USSArizonafacts.org. He died in June 1974.
Eighty-five sets of remains recovered from the USS Arizona and surrounding waters are buried as "unknowns" in graves like this one because they could not be identified in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Kevin Kline is the executive director of Operation 85, a grassroots effort by USS Arizona families to network and secure DNA family reference samples so the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency can identify 85 sets of remains linked to the battleship that are buried as "unknowns" in a military cemetery in Honolulu. Kline, of Mount Vernon, Virginia, is the grandnephew of a sailor who was killed on the ship during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Stanley Kula, a cook aboard the USS Arizona, during a visit with his family in Omaha in November 1940. He was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
Marine Corps Pfc. Donald Fleetwood (first row, third from right) was a member of the USS Arizona's champion whale boat team in 1941. All but two of the men in this photo were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941, including Fleetwood, who was from Iowa. Sgt. John Baker (standing, center) of Nebraska, the team's coxswain, did survive the attack, according to the website USSArizonafacts.org. He died in June 1974.
