US Aims to Exhume and Identify 88 USS Arizona Crew Members Buried as Unknowns After Pearl Harbor

US Aims to Exhume and Identify 88 USS Arizona Crew Members Buried as Unknowns After Pearl Harbor
A grave marker for an unknown casualty from the USS Arizona is shown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, on July 15, 2021, in Honolulu. Caleb Jones/AP Photo
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HONOLULU—The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery.

It’s part of an effort to use advances in DNA technology to attach names to those the military was unable to identify after the aerial assault 85 years ago.