{"id":65248,"date":"2016-04-15T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65248"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:45:11","slug":"another-from-pearl-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65248","title":{"rendered":"Four More From Pearl Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

DPAA has identified and accounted for the following four formerly-missing US sailors.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 ENS Joseph P. Hittorff<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 6 April 2016.<\/lp><\/p>\n

\u2022 CSK Herbert J. Hoard<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 4 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2022 FC1 Paul A. Nash<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941. He was accounted for on 5 April 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2022 MM1 Alfred F. Wells<\/strong>, assigned to the crew of the USS Oklahoma<\/span>, US Navy, was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941.\u00a0 He was accounted for on 7 April 2016.<\/p>\n

Sailors, rest your oars. \u00a0Our apologies that identifying you took so long.<\/p>\n

Rest now in peace, elder brothers-in-arms.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page<\/a><\/em>. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n

If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DPAA has identified and accounted for the following four formerly-missing US sailors. \u2022 ENS Joseph P. … Four More From Pearl Identified<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}