Howard Warren Bean, age 27, from Everett, Washington, Suffolk county.
Parents: Warren Henry Bean
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma Remains recovered
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency
Neil Daniel Frye, age 20, from North Carolina, Hoke county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS West Virginia
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Daryle Edward Artley, age 21, from Maywood, Nebraska.
Parents: Mr. Robert Lee Artley
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for July 30, 2019
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency
Cecil Everett Barncord, age 24, from Topeka, Kansas, Shawnee county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma Remains recovered
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency
Harold Eugene Bates, age 27, from Lehigh, Kansas, Marion county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Accounted for February 5, 2021. Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense pow/mia Accounting Agency
Wilbur Clayton Barrett, age 26, from El Dorado, Kansas, Butler county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma Remains recovered
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency
Willard Henry Aldridge, age 20, from Sitka, Kansas, Clark county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains recovered
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Ralph Curtis Battles, age 25, from Boaz, Alabama.
Parents: Leonard Evan Battles
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for Feb. 12. 2021
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Leon Arickx, age 22, from London, Minnesota, Mitchell county.
Parents: Charlie Arickx
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma Remains recovered
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency
Randolph Harold Barber, age 19, from New London, Wisconsin, Waupaca county.
Parents: Gertrude (1898 – 1990) and Peter (1893 – 1948)
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: brothers, Navy Fireman 1st Class Malcolm J. Barber, 22, Navy Fireman 1st Class Leroy K. Barber, 21, and Navy Fireman 2nd Class Randolph H. Barber, 19, of New London, Wisconsin, killed during World War II, were accounted for on June 10, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Barber brothers were 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 the Barber brothers.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including the Barber brothers.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
Cemetery: Most Precious Blood in New London
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, grave markers