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Pearl Harbor Sailor Laid to Rest in Kansas After 78 Years
190914-N-NU281-1135.JPG Photo By: MC2 Justin Pacheco

EL DORADO, Kansas - Sailors assigned to Naval Operations Support Center, Wichita, render military funeral honors for Seaman 2nd Class Wilbur Clayton Barrett during a funeral, Sept. 14, 2019, in his hometown of El Dorado, Kansas. Barrett was killed aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) during the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 2015, the Navy exhumed the unidentified remains of 380 Sailors and Marines lost aboard the Oklahoma, to identify them using DNA analysis so they could be returned to their families.


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