Remains of Ohio Navy firefighter identified 80 years after Pearl Harbor
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The remains of Beoin H. Corzatt, Ohio Navy Firefighter 1st Class, have finally been identified eight decades after his death on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.
Accounting agency Defense POW/MIA announced on Friday that he was accounted for on December 17, 2020.
Ohio Navy Fireman 1st Class Beoin H. Corzatt of Arcanum, Ohio was killed in the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941.
(POW/MIA Defense Accounting Agency)
On December 7, 1941, Corzatt was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was docked at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship came under attack from Japanese aircraft. Corzatt was from Arcanum, Ohio and was 24 years old.
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The ship was hit by several torpedoes, causing her to capsize, which claimed the lives of 429 crew members, including Corzatt.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of those involved in the historic attack on Pearl Harbor.
The recovered remains were later buried in Halawa and Nu’uanu cemeteries in Hawaii. In September 1947, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) removed the remains and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks.
The AGRS then buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as Punchbowl, in Honolulu.
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Laboratory personnel were only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time.
A military council classified the unidentified bodies in October 1949, including Corzatt.
To identify Corzatt’s remains, DPAA scientists used dental and anthropological scans. In addition, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examination System used analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR).
Corzatt’s name is on the walls of the missing at the Punchbowl, along with the other World War II missing.
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A rosette will be placed next to their name to indicate that they have been considered.
Corzatt will be placed in his final resting place on September 21, 2022 at the Punchbowl.
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