A Navy electrician who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, will be coming home.
A Navy electrician who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, will be coming home to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
As an electrician, Whitson wired and repaired a ships’ electrical systems. He also operated and maintained electrical motors, generators and alternators, along with charging and maintaining batteries, gyrocompass, fire control and other circuitry. In April 2015, the unidentified remains of the crewmembers of the Oklahoma were exhumed for DNA analysis and by 2021, the remains of 355 sailors and Marines were identified.
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