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Eugene

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Tue Sep 13, 2022, 09:44 AM Sep 2022

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at last

Source: Associated Press

Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at last

By DON BABWIN
September 13, 2022

CHICAGO (AP) — A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.

Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family have waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The casket containing his remains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

“This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert, where he is and that he’s being finally laid to rest after being listed as an unknown for so long,” said Brad McDonald, a nephew.

The service at Arlington will be the latest chapter in the story of the man from the small northern Illinois town of Grayslake, for the family that never had a body to bury when he was killed and the scientific quest to put names to the remains of hundreds of personnel from the battleship who lay buried anonymously for decades in a dormant volcanic crater near Pearl Harbor.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/united-states-oklahoma-world-war-ii-attack-on-pearl-harbor-efd742cfc41ea5dc21a288e3598753f7


This undated image provided by the U.S. Navy shows sailor Herbert “Bert” Jacobson, from Grayslake, Ill. The 21-year-old is to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 — more than 80 years after he was killed in the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. Scientific testing that was started a few years ago on remains of men whose bodies were pulled from the USS Oklahoma after the attack has led to the identification of Jacobson and nearly 400 others. (U.S. Navy via AP)

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Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at last (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
Rest easy sailor...fair winds and following seas... Docreed2003 Sep 2022 #1
This... ultralite001 Sep 2022 #2
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