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The Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency is working to identify remains by using DNA technology and other modern methods, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/79-years-after-pearl-harbor-attack-offutt-lab-working-to-bring-families-closure\/article_314bb304-67cc-5211-9130-c1f234266331.html\" target=_blank>the Omaha World-Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/10\/long-after-they-died-military-sees-surge-in-identifications\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18274727757079.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Long after they died, military sees surge in identifications of the fallen in past conflicts<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Officials believe remains of nearly half of the 83,000 unidentified service members killed in World War II and more recent wars could be identified and returned to relatives.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/2015\/07\/27\/remains-of-pearl-harbor-victims-exhumed-for-identification\/\" target=_blank>the accounting agency disinterred 61 caskets<\/a> at the National Military Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu that contained unidentified remains from the Oklahoma. The caskets were brought to an Offutt laboratory, which had plenty of space to spread out the more than 13,000 bones they contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency\u2019s historians and forensic anthropologists had hoped to identify 315, or 80 percent, of the missing men by the end of 2020. With weeks to go, they have identified 281 of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/11\/23\/uss-oklahoma-sailor-killed-in-pearl-harbor-attack-laid-to-rest-in-arkansas\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/362816.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">USS Oklahoma sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack laid to rest in Arkansas<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Fireman First Class Samuel Cyrus Steiner&#039;s remains were identified in March after the DoD began efforts in 2015 to identify the remains of Oklahoma sailors buried as &quot;unknowns&quot; shortly before 1950.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only 35 of the 429 sailors and Marines who died on the ship were identified during the war. 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