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US aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor
- The U.S. will exhume 88 unknown service members from the USS Arizona to seek identification.
- DNA testing will match remains to families who submitted samples through programs like Operation 85.
- Disinterments will begin in November or December with about eight sets removed every few weeks.
- The effort follows decades of using DNA to identify Pearl Harbor unknowns and other ships’ crews.
- Family members who provided DNA are from about 60% of missing Arizona crew.
- Remains will be analyzed at Dover’s Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.
- The Arizona wreck remains underwater, with most unknowns still entombed aboard the ship.
- The project is led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as part of its mission.
- Family grief and closure are cited as a potential outcome for those who receive DNA matches.
- The Arizona has a long history of combat loss dating to Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- The exhumation plan was first reported by Stars and Stripes and announced by Defense officials.
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