Wiley Coy Goff, age 24, from Grant County Lamont, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Tulsa World (1960)
Albert Lewis Ward, age 20, from Creek County Sapulpa, Oklahoma .
Parents: Foster son of his aunt, Dora Gault
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Sapulpa Herald (1942)
John E. Cruthirds, age 20, from LeFlore County Oklahoma.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died at Pearl Harbor
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Oklahoma Courier (1945)
Billy Turner, age 20, from Ardmore, Oklahoma, Carter county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: December 7, 1941
Death details: On October 1, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman First Class Billy N. Turner, missing from World War II.
Seaman First Class Turner entered the U.S. Navy from Oklahoma and served on the USS Oklahoma. On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when attacked by Japanese forces. The Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine sailors and Marines were lost, including SEA1 Turner. In the days, months, and years following the attack, remains of men lost aboard the Oklahoma were recovered. Those remains that could not be identified were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, Hawaii (NMCP). In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to exhume unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma and reexamine them using advances in forensic technology. From June through November 2015, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel, in cooperation with cemetery officials, exhumed all remaining caskets associated with the USS Oklahoma at the NMCP and transferred the remains to DPAA laboratories. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of SEA1 Turner.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
William Holmes Hamilton, age 20, from Oklahoma County Oklahoma City, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Body not recovered
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Eugene Woodrow Wicker, age 20, from Tulsa County Turley, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Military history: Uss Oklahoma; United States Navy
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Tulsa Tribune (1942)
Charles R. Taylor, age 23, from Carnegie, Oklahoma, Caddo county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: accounted for on July 26, 2021. On Dec. 7, 1941, Taylor was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Taylor.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Ted W. Jr. Hampton, age 19, from Seminole County Seminole, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Schools: Okemah High graduate
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Okemah News Leader (1943)
Clyde Richard Williams, age 19, from Okmulgee County Okmulgee, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Okmulgee Daily Times (2015)
Charles R. Taylor, age 23, from Caddo County Carnegie, Oklahoma .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: accounted for on July 26, 2021. On Dec. 7, 1941, Taylor was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Taylor.
Source: National Archives