190809-N-SH284-0068 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (Aug. 9, 2019)
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190809-N-SH284-0068 PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (Aug. 9, 2019) Rear Adm. Eric Ruttenberg, chief engineer, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, and Senior Chief Master-at-Arms Andrew Feliciano, Naval Base Kitsap Security Operations Officer, render honors to the family of two brothers, Seaman 2nd Class Calvin H. Palmer and Seaman 2nd Class Wilfred D. Palmer, during a repatriation ceremony at Sunset Lane Cemetery. The Palmer brothers perished when their battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB 37), was attacked by Japanese aircraft at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Their remains went unidentified until they were exhumed for analysis from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Vaughan Dill/Released)
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