Remains Of Coweta Sailor Killed At Pearl Harbor Returned To Family

The remains of a Coweta sailor killed during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have been identified and are being returned to his family.

The American Graves Registration Service says DNA analysis identified the remains exhumed from a national cemetery near Honolulu as those of 20-year-old Navy Seaman 1st Class Eugene W. Wicker. 

He was one of 429 USS Oklahoma crew members killed when the battleship was struck by Japanese torpedoes and capsized.

In April 2015, a new Defense Department directed that unknown members of the Oklahoma's dead be exhumed and subjected to DNA testing. He will be buried with full military honors August 4, in Fort Gibson.

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The Associated Press contributed to this story.