AUGUSTA, Maine — A naval aviator killed through the Japanese shock assault on Pearl Harbor was laid to relaxation greater than 80 years later in his residence state on Tuesday.
Ensign Stanley W. Allen obtained a funeral with full army honors at Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Augusta, with a number of relations in attendance.
He was 25 when he died, and his stays had been beforehand buried with unknowns on the Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Ensign Allen, who was skilled to fly a spotter float aircraft from the usOklahoma, was amongst 429 sailors who died on the battleship, which rolled over with many trapped inside on Dec. 7, 1941.
Allen was amongst 388 service members whose stays went unidentified earlier than a 2015 program during which our bodies had been disinterred for DNA evaluation. Since then, greater than 350 have been recognized.
The Bowdoin Faculty graduate enlisted within the U.S. Naval Reserves in 1940 in Boston earlier than coaching at Naval Air Station Pensacola and getting assigned to Statement Squadron One.
Throughout the assault, the Oklahoma was one of many first ships hit, and lots of crew members had been sleeping under deck with little likelihood of escape. The ship sank after being struck by a number of torpedoes.
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