Wow.

Here

Here, Dad, FIL, 4 Uncles both sides with one Uncle B-17 pilot, 7th Air Force, KIA, Never Forget!

Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Class Victor Patrick Tumlinson, Class of 1942, killed aboard the USS Oklahoma, December 7, 1941; according to my research, he is the first and only Texas Aggie to be killed at Pearl Harbor



On December 7, 1941, the 19-year-old Tumlinson, a native of Raymondville, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. During the Japanese aerial attack, the Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits and quickly capsized. FC3c Tumlinson was among the 429 crewmen killed during the historic start of World War II.

From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, interring them in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries.

In September 1947, the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred these remains and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. However, the laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board officially classified those who could not be identified, including Tumlinson, as non-recoverable.

In April 2015, the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a policy memorandum directing the disinterment of the USS Oklahoma unknowns from the Punchbowl. DPAA personnel began exhuming the remains on June 15, 2015, for detailed analysis.

To identify Tumlinson's remains, scientists from DPAA and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis, dental and anthropological analysis, in addition to circumstantial and material evidence.

U.S. Navy Fire Controlman Third Class Victor P. Tumlinson was officially accounted for on February 8, 2019.

He was reburied in the Raymondville Memorial Cemetery, Willacy County, Texas on December 7th, 2019

Navy Sailor Killed in 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Set to be Buried in Raymondville

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We owe them so damn much. You gotta be proud of your family! Thank God we had men like that.

Man o man. What a story. Thank you so damn much for sharing. May we never, ever, forget them.