![Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard boards the wreck of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), at Pearl Harbor during salvage operations in April 1942.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Q-Editorial-1-HT-Spr18-760x610.jpg)
Spring 2018
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
“Unknown” no more.
In the last issue, I wrote about the pain of families of military persons listed as “missing in action.” Shortly after that issue was published, government sources announced that about 30 of the sailors who died when the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was attacked and sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and were buried as “unknown” have been identified. Read more