Remains of man killed during Pearl Harbor attack identified Rebecca CohenOctober 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM 1 The USS California burns following an attack on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor.
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Rebecca CohenOctober 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The USS California burns following an attack on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. (Bettmann Archive / Getty Images)
The remains of a man killed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor have been identified, officials said.
U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden, 29, of New Bern, North Carolina, was killed during the attack during World War II, according to a release from The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The statement stated that Bowden was accounted for as of April 1.
Bowden was assigned to the USS California, which was one of the ships hit by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941, the statement said. The ship was stationed at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, and was struck by multiple torpedoes and bombs, setting it on fire and causing it to sink.
The attack killed 102 crew members on board, the agency said. Approximately 43 people were identified immediately after the attack.
The remains of the fallen soldiers were collected by Navy personnel from December 1941 to April 1942 and interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries, according to the statement.
Five years later, the bodies were disinterred, as members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) worked to recover and identify the fallen men. The remains were taken to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks on Ohau, Hawaii, the statement said.
The AGRS was only able to identify 39 men from the USS California in 1947, and then buried the remainder of the unidentified remains at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as Punchbowl, in Honolulu, the agency said.
Two years later, on April 26, 1949, a military board classified Bowden's remains as non-recoverable.
The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu. (AaronP / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images)
That was until 2018, when the DPAA exhumed the remainder of the bodies from the USS California from Punchbowl, all unidentified, for further analysis, according to the group.
Scientists used dental and anthropological analysis along with circumstantial evidence to identify Bowden's remains, the statement said. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA analysis and mitochondrial genome sequencing data to confirm his identity.
Bowden's family recently received the news that he had been identified. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday.
His name is listed on the Walls of the Missing at Punchbowl, alongside others missing from WWII, the statement said. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate that he has been identified.
Source: "AOL General News"
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