Starring Winfield, a soldier who died at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with ties to the North Bay, has ben identified by DNA analyzing. Following a two-year effort to pull the 27,000-ton battleship upright, laboratory staff were only able to positively identify 35 of its crew members. Nine years ago the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) launched the USS Oklahoma Project to identify lost soldiers. In 2015, the remains of those Oklahoma crew members were exhumed from Oahu’s National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Since then, using DNA profiling techniques unavailable to their predecessors, Defense Department scientists have identified 356 crew members.
Recently Identified Pearl Harbor Victim Has North Bay Ties
