Herbert “Bert” Jacobson was just 21-years-old when he was one of more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma.
President Roosevelt made handwritten modifications to the dictated and typewritten first draft of his Declaration of War against Japan.CHICAGO — 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 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.
“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.The battleship remained submerged for two years before it was refloated and bodies were recovered.
“We now have the ability to forensically test these remains and produce the identifications,” Debra Prince Zinni, a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii, told The Associated Press at the time. That gave new hope to Jacobson family members, who had been disappointed by each failed effort. They told the AP that Jacobson's mother cried every Dec. 7, at least in part because she never knew where he was.The 2015 effort, Project Oklahoma, has led to the identification of 355 men — including Jacobson — who were killed when their ship was hit by at least nine torpedoes. That leaves 33 sets of remains still to be identified.
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at lastA 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.
Read more »
Sailor From Grayslake Killed at Pearl Harbor to be Laid to Rest, At LastMembers 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.
Read more »
Remains of Grayslake soldier killed during Pearl Harbor attack to be buried at Arlington National CemeteryThe remains of Herbert Jacobson, killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941 while serving on the USS Oklahoma in World War II, are to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday. We caught up with his nephew Brad McDonald, who recounted tales he heard about 'Bert' throughout his life as the family tragedy turned into a mission of scientific discovery and honoring Bert's sacrifice.
Read more »
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at lastA 21-year-old sailor is being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery more than 80 years after he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Read more »