Remains of the Shawano plane killed in Pearl Harbor, which was identified

Shawano (NBC 26) -The remains of a Shawano plane killed during the Second World War were identified, the Defense -Pow/Mia Accounting Agency (dpaa) said on Tuesday.

The agency terminated the remains of the US Army Air Forces PVT. The 31 -year -old Herbert E. McLaughlin from Shawano was taken into account in December 2024. The family's family was recently informed about his identification.

PVT. McLaughlin was killed on December 7, 1941 at the Pearl Harbor attack on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Days after the attack, the killed soldiers and aviators recovered the most marinian, and these remains were buried in Oahu. In 1947, members of the American Graves Registration Service who were commissioned to relax and identify fallen staff from the Second World War, lit the remains and transfer them to a laboratory to try identification. They were unable to confirm the identity of 12 of these men and confirmed them again on the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as The Punchbowl, in Honolulu.

In 1949, a military stand classified those who, according to the press release, were not identified as non -recuring table, including McLaughlin.

In June 2019, DPAA exquited these 12 unknown remains from the punchbowl. Using anthropological analysis, evidence of evidence, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome DNA analysis, PVT. McLaughlin remains have been successfully identified.

After the publication PVT. McLaghlin is buried in Shawano on a dated date.