Starring Brooks Winfield, who served on the USS Oklahoma, will be interred now that the military has completed a prolonged process to confirm his remains.
Starring Winfield’s photo in the 1936 San Rafael High School yearbook, photographed in San Rafael, Calif., on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Winfield was aboard the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and was among the 429 crewmen who died. Adam Morrill grew up hearing stories about his great uncle, Starring Brooks Winfield, whom his grandmother Joyce Walker called a war hero.
Morrill was well versed in his family history even before a genealogist working for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency came calling in 2021. When the war was over, the American Graves Registration Service, tasked with recovering and identifying casualties in the Pacific theater, disinterred remains from the two cemeteries. The remains were transferred to a laboratory at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, where 35 men were originally identified. The unidentified remains were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, colloquially known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
Once an identification is made, the case is referred to the service casualty office, which reaches out to the family, said Sean Everette, media relations chief with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
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