80 years after Pearl Harbor, Louisiana sailor’s remains come home

BOGALUSA, La. — A U.S. sailor from south Louisiana who had been unaccounted for because the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor will lastly get a correct burial again residence.

The U.S. Division of Protection introduced Thursday that Navy Seaman 1st Class Houston Temples, who was 24 years previous on the time of the assault, shall be buried in Washington Parish later this yr, WBRZ-TV reported.

Temples was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma throughout World Struggle II and was amongst greater than 400 males killed when the vessel sank Dec. 7, 1941, throughout the assault by Japanese plane. The division spent years recovering servicemembers’ stays from the harbor, a lot of whom went unidentified.

By 1947, laboratory workers was solely capable of determine the stays of 35 unnamed males recovered from the united statesOklahoma. In 2015, the Division of Protection launched new efforts to determine these remaining sailors, which concerned exhuming their stays from the Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.

Temples’ title has been displayed on the Partitions of the Lacking monument on the cemetery for many years. A rosette shall be positioned alongside it to point he’s lastly been accounted for.

His funeral is scheduled for Dec. 7 in Bogalusa.