** NOTE: Before his remains were identified and laid to rest in 2019 -- more than 70 years after his death -- Wilferd Palmer was honored with listings on two military memorials in Hawaii. These memorials are not duplicates and belong on the site. **
Wilferd Palmer and his brother Calvin were both serving on the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941 and both died in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that morning that took their lives and those of 425 other crew members. Both men originally were interred as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu before their remains were studied and genetically linked to members of their family through scientific testing. They were laid to rest in their hometown, and continue to be honored at the USS Oklahoma Memorial and the Honolulu Memorial. Rosettes were engraved next to their names to indicate their remains have been accounted for.
Wilferd Palmer and his brother Calvin were both serving on the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941 and both died in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that morning that took their lives and those of 425 other crew members. Both men originally were interred as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu before their remains were studied and genetically linked to members of their family through scientific testing. They were laid to rest in their hometown, and continue to be honored at the USS Oklahoma Memorial and the Honolulu Memorial. Rosettes were engraved next to their names to indicate their remains have been accounted for.
** NOTE: Before his remains were identified and laid to rest in 2019 -- more than 70 years after his death -- Wilferd Palmer was honored with listings on two military memorials in Hawaii. These memorials are not duplicates and belong on the site. **
Wilferd Palmer and his brother Calvin were both serving on the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941 and both died in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that morning that took their lives and those of 425 other crew members. Both men originally were interred as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu before their remains were studied and genetically linked to members of their family through scientific testing. They were laid to rest in their hometown, and continue to be honored at the USS Oklahoma Memorial and the Honolulu Memorial. Rosettes were engraved next to their names to indicate their remains have been accounted for.
Wilferd Palmer and his brother Calvin were both serving on the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941 and both died in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that morning that took their lives and those of 425 other crew members. Both men originally were interred as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu before their remains were studied and genetically linked to members of their family through scientific testing. They were laid to rest in their hometown, and continue to be honored at the USS Oklahoma Memorial and the Honolulu Memorial. Rosettes were engraved next to their names to indicate their remains have been accounted for.
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This is a cenotaph. Wilferd Palmer's remains were laid to rest in his hometown after being identified in 2019.
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