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Dee Dee King, Certified Genealogist (SM)
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Manvel Texas 77578
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Life member Galveston County Genealogical Society
Certified Genealogist (CG) is a service mark (sm) of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® conferred to associates who consistently meet ethical and competency standards in accord with peer-reviewed evaluations every five years. http://www.BCGcertification.org/
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Current Cases for the Navy Casualty POW/MIA Branch
Ms. King's task for the next three years is to identify and locate DNA Family Reference Sample Donors for nearly 400 servicemen of the USS Oklahoma. The cases below are being researched today. If you do not see the name of a serviceman in this list, please feel free to contact us for more information. If you are a family member or have contact with a family member, please visit the Contact Us page for contact information for Dee Dee King, CG. Click here for a list of Frequently Asked Questions. **NOTE: there are dozens of sites on the internet where individuals or "organizations" list USS Oklahoma casualties and provide their contact information if you would like to help with DNA samples or locating family. Ms. King is the official genealogist for the US Navy. Please contact us if you are a relative or can help locate relatives.
USS Oklahoma - Pearl Harbor
(F2c) Martin Anthony Gara
(S1c) Robert E Halterman
(GM2c) William Francis Hellstern
(S1c) James William Holzhauer
(S2c) Challis R James
(S2c) Charles H Johannes
(S2c) Charles A Jones
(MM1c) Fred M Jones
(F1c) Albert U Kane
(RmM3c) Howard V Keffer
(S1c) Donald G Keller
(F1c) Elmer Kerestes
(EM3c) William A Klasing
(BGMSTR2c) Lionel W Lescault
(WT2c) Clarence M Lockwood
(SD3c) Octavius N Mabine
(S2c) Howard S Magers
S2c) Michael Malek
(SF2c) Algeo Malfante
(EM1c) Walter B Manning
(MUS1c) Henri C Mason
(S1c) Joseph K Maule
(FC2c) Donald R McCloud
(F1c) James O McDonald
(F1c) Bert E McKeeman
(S2c) Lloyd E McLaughlin
(MM1c) Earl R Melton
(RM3c) Charles A Montgomery
(HA1c) John M Mulick
(F1c) Elmer D Nail
(YN3c) Sam D Nevill
(S1c) Wilbur F Newton
(S2c) Carl Nichols
(SK3c) Harry E Nichols
(F1c) Frank E Nicoles
(BM1c) Arnold M Nielsen
(SM3c) Charles E Nix
(F1c) Charles R Ogle
(Sk3c) Eli Olsen
(F1c) Jarvis G Outland
(FC2c) Lawrence J Overly
(EM3c) Alphard S Owsley
(MUS2c) James Palides Jr
(PMH3c) George L Paradis
(MATT3) Isaac Parker
(S2c) Dale F Pearce
(S2c) Walter R Pentico
(WT1c) Stephen Pepe
Charles F Perdue
(WT1c) Milo E Phillips
(S2c) James N Phipps
(F1c) Gerald H Pirtle
(S2c) Rudolph V Piskuran
(S1c) Herbert J Poindexter Jr
(S2c) Brady O Prewitt
(FC3c) Robert L Pribble
(F1c) George F Price
(ENS) Lewis B Pride Jr
(S1c) Paul S Raimond
(SK3c) Eldon C Ray
(F1c) Dan E Reagan
(WT1c) Leo B Regan
(RM3c) Irvin F Rice
(RM3c) Clyde Ridenour Jr
(S2c) David J Riley
(S2c) Joseph M Robertson
(S1c) Harold W Roesch
(F1c) Walter B Rogers
(YN3c) Edmund T Ryan
(EM3c) Roman W Sadlowski
(S1c) Kenneth H Sampson
(MMC) Dean S Sanders
(S2c) Charles L Saunders
(S1c) Lyal J Savage
(S1c) John E Savidge
(F1c) Paul E Saylor
(F1c) Walter F Schleiter
(GM3c) Herman Schmidt
(LTJG) Aloysius H Schmitt
(F1C) Andrew J Schmitz
John H Schoonover
(S2c) William L Sellon
(F2c) William K Shafer
(FC1c) Edward J Shelden
(SM1c) Eugene M Skaggs
(S1c) Edward F Slapikas
(M1c) Leonard F Smith
(EM3c) Merle A Smith
(MUS1c) Rowland H Smith
(S1c) James C Solomon
(S1c) Maurice V Spangler
(S1c) Kirby R Stapleton
Ulis C Steely
(S1c) Walter C Stein
(F1c) Samuel C Steiner
Charles M Stern Jr
(MM2c) Everett R Stewart
(S1c) Donald A Stott
(FC3c) Robert T Stout
(S1c) Milton R Surratt
(S1c) Edward E Talbert
(S2c) Rangner F Tanner Jr
(S1c) Monroe Temple
(S1c) Houston Temples
(F2c) Benjiman Terhune
(F1c) Charles W Thompson
Cases with *** have been submitted with less than ideal DNA donor results. If you have information or are related to these servicemen, please contact Dee Dee King.
USS Oklahoma
(ENS AV) Stanley W. Allen ***
(S2c) John George Bock Jr.***
(MATT1c) Ralph McHenry Boudreaux***
(MATT1c) Randall Walter Brewer***
(S1c) William Brooks***
(MM2c) James Rufus Buchanan***
(S1c) Biacio Casola***
(CWO PYCLK) John Gaynor Connolly***
(EM1c) William McKnight Curry ***
(F1c) James Watson Davenport Jr.***
(CWTP) Francis Daniel Day***
(CMMP) Ralph Alva Derrington***
(MU2c) Charlton H. Ferguson***
(SD2c) Felicisimo Florese - - from Abua, Camarines Sur, Philippines
(S1c) Walter Charles Foley***
(S2c) Jimmie Lee Henrichsen*** - adopted by John Henrichsen and Alma Jorgenson of South Dakota; biological family could not be identified.
(CK1c) Willie Jackson***
(F1c) Edward Dale Johnson***
(MATT3c) Jerry Jones*** - from Springs MS, mother Lucille Jones
Cold War
(LTJG) Howard W. Seeschaf *** - searching for the family connections with Edward and Theresa Drescher in New York, late 1800s and early 1900s, specifically the family of Emily Drescher.
(AD1) Jack William Thomas ***, son of Jack/John Thomas and Isabell Poviloitis, Waterbury CT.
This list changes daily, please feel free to check back often.
The USS Oklahoma
Heather Harris, Historian, "ARCHIVAL RESEARCH MEMO,"
"There are discrepancies in the various casualty lists created after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the figures settled upon for deaths among USS Oklahoma crew members were 415 Navy personnel and 14 Marines (see Appendix). Of this number, 36 were buried with identifications in the months and years immediately following the incident, leaving 393 buried among the unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP or Punchbowl), and making the unknowns from the USS Oklahoma the single largest group of buried unidentified servicemen from the Pearl Harbor attack. Some number of an additional 64 burials of unknowns, men recovered from the harbor itself rather than a particular ship, has the potential to be associated with missing servicemen from the USS Oklahoma, as they have no loss location more specific than “Pearl Harbor.”
In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Navy personnel recovered and buried only four unknowns associated with the USS Oklahoma in Nuuanu Cemetery from December 8 through December 16, 1941. In addition to these unknowns, 29 crew members of the USS Oklahoma were identified and buried in either Nuuanu or Halawa Naval Cemetery during this same timeframe. The vast majority of the unknown servicemen of the USS Oklahoma were recovered from the ship during salvaging operations. These recoveries, conducted initially by divers and salvaging crews as they prepared the Oklahoma for righting and continued once the ship had been re-floated, resulted in a total of 52 burials, representing approximately 400 individuals.**** Click here to read the full memorandum.
****Heather Harris, Historian, "ARCHIVAL RESEARCH MEMO," "Re: History of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma and subsequent attempts to recover and identify her crew," 1 March 2010. Presented here with permission from Ms. Harris.
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