A naval aviator killed in Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was laid to rest in his home state on Tuesday, more than 80 years later.
Ensign Stanley W. Allen was laid to rest at Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Augusta with full military honors, attended by many family members.
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He was 25 years old when he died, and his remains were first interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific with unidentified people.
One of the 428 sailors aboard the USS Oklahoma during Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was laid to rest in Maine on Tuesday with full military honors. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Ensign Allen, who was trained to fly spotter float planes from the USS Oklahoma, was among the 429 sailors who died on the battleship, which capsized on December 7, 1941, with many trapped inside.
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Allen was among 388 service members whose remains were identified before a 2015 program in which bodies were dissected for DNA analysis. Since then, more than 350 have been identified.
The Bowdoin College graduate joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in Boston in 1940 before receiving training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and being assigned to Observation Squadron One.
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During the attack, Oklahoma was one of the first ships to be hit, and many crew members were sleeping below deck with little chance of survival. The ship sank after being hit by several torpedoes.
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