2026-03-06T06:43:00-0500 / CBS/AP
更新于：2026年3月6日 / 美国东部时间上午6:44 / CBS/AP
美国军方计划发掘1941年日本袭击珍珠港时，在亚利桑那号战舰爆炸中遇难的88名水手和海军陆战队员的遗体。这些遗体当时被作为无名烈士安葬在檀香山的一处公墓中。
这是利用DNA技术进展，为当年空袭后军方无法识别身份的遇难者确认姓名的努力的一部分。
负责国防战俘与失踪人员会计局（DPAA）的主任凯利·麦基格（Kelly McKeague）周四在声明中表示，从太平洋国家纪念公墓起葬这些遗体的工作将于11月或12月开始。
每两到三周将提取约8组遗体，其DNA将与失踪军人家属提供的样本进行比对。
1941年12月7日对夏威夷海军基地的轰炸导致数十艘舰艇沉没、倾覆或受损，美国因此卷入第二次世界大战。
此次身份识别工作是十年前开始的珍珠港无名烈士DNA项目的延续。该机构已通过类似方法，确认了包括10月确认的美国海军一等水手爱德华·D·鲍登在内的数百名船员身份，涉及亚利桑那号、俄克拉荷马号、西弗吉尼亚号及其他舰艇。
亚利桑那号在被轰炸后仅9分钟便沉没，其1177名遇难者占袭击中丧生军人的近一半。如今，这艘战舰仍沉在海底，超过900名水手和海军陆战队员的遗体被安葬在舰体内。
据DPAA称，一名带领临时救援小组的军官指出，”大多数被烧伤的人都无法辨认”，但他们成功将许多战友从燃烧的残骸中转移出来，并将其他人从附近水域救起。
水下坟墓中的遗体将保持原位，只有公墓中的遗体将被发掘。
“仍在哀悼”
罗伯特·埃德温·克莱恩（Robert Edwin Kline）在亚利桑那号上遇难时是一名22岁的二级枪炮军士。弗吉尼亚州北部的房地产经纪人凯文·克莱恩（Kevin Kline）表示，他一直被告知他的曾叔公的遗体在船上。直到几年前，他才听说有些船员被作为无名烈士安葬在公墓中。
克莱恩并不期望他的曾叔公能在此次身份确认中被识别出来，但他相信那些通过DNA比对获得身份的家庭，其中一些人仍在承受”世代相传的悲伤”，将会得到某种程度的慰藉。
他讲述了一位女士的故事：她一直不明白为什么自己在圣诞节前后总是情绪低落。后来她意识到，她的祖母（在亚利桑那号上失去了儿子）和母亲（失去了兄弟）从未庆祝过这个节日，因为它恰好是纪念日几周后的时间。
“随着年龄增长，她意识到祖母和母亲仍在为这次失去而悲伤，”克莱恩说，”而这种悲伤也传到了她身上。”
隶属于国防部的国防战俘与失踪人员会计局多年来一直反对发掘亚利桑那号的遗体，称这并不实际，因为截至2021年，他们仅掌握了一小部分遇难者的医疗和牙科记录以及亲属DNA样本——仅占家属的1%。
克莱恩和他创立的”85行动”组织在过去三年中一直在寻找家属并安排他们提供DNA样本。在他联系的1500人中，只有约15人拒绝参与。
克莱恩表示，目前已有626名水手和海军陆战队员的家属提供了DNA样本，这略低于仍失踪船员总数的60%，样本收集工作仍在继续。
克莱恩曾对军方过去的不情愿感到沮丧甚至愤怒，但他的态度已经改变。
“我很高兴我们能够团结起来，扭转他们的’坚决拒绝’，”克莱恩说。
这些遗体将被送往珍珠港希卡姆联合基地的该机构实验室进行分析，DNA样本将被送往特拉华州多佛空军基地的武装部队DNA鉴定实验室。
独立军事报纸《星条旗报》首先报道了发掘亚利桑那号无名烈士遗体的决定。
2024年，亚利桑那号沉没事件中唯一在世的幸存者卢·康特（Lou Conter）在加利福尼亚州去世，享年102岁。
U.S. plans to exhume and identify remains of 88 Pearl Harbor sailors who were buried as unknowns
2026-03-06T06:43:00-0500 / CBS/AP
Updated on: March 6, 2026 / 6:44 AM EST / CBS/AP
The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery.
It’s part of an effort to use advances in DNA technology to attach names to those the military was unable to identify after the aerial assault 85 years ago.
The disinterments from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific are due to begin in November or December, Kelly McKeague, the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, said Thursday in a statement.
About eight sets of remains will be removed every two to three weeks, and the DNA will be compared with samples collected from family members of missing troops.
Dozens of ships sank, capsized or were damaged in the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of the Hawaii naval base, which catapulted the U.S. into World War II.
The identification effort follows earlier projects dating back a decade to use DNA for Pearl Harbor unknowns. The agency has identified hundreds of crew members — including U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden in October — from the USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia and other ships using similar methods.
The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still lies where it hit bottom, with more than 900 sailors and Marines are entombed inside.
This December 7, 1941 file photo obtained from the US Naval Historical Center shows the USS Arizona, sunk and burning furiously. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. Shown at left are men on the stern of USS Tennessee as they move fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship. HO/AFP/Getty Images
According to the DPAA, one officer who led an impromptu rescue party noted that “most of the men who were burned were unrecognizable,” but they succeeded in moving many of their shipmates off of the burning wreckage and pulling others out of the nearby waters.
Remains in that underwater grave will stay where they are. Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.
“Still grieving”
Robert Edwin Kline was a 22-year-old gunner’s mate second class when he was killed on the Arizona. Kevin Kline, a real estate agent in northern Virginia, said he was always told that his great-uncle’s remains were on the ship. It was only a few years ago that he heard some crew members were buried as unknowns in a cemetery.
Kline does not have high expectations that his great-uncle will among those identified. But he believes that families that do get a DNA match, some of whom continue to grapple with “generational grief,” will get some closure.
Robert Edward Kline DPAA
He shared the story of one woman who was mystified why she was always so sad around Christmas. She later noted that her grandmother, who lost a son on the Arizona, and her mother, who lost her brother, never celebrated the holiday as it came just weeks after the anniversary of his death.
“As she got older, she realized that her grandmother and her mom were still grieving about this loss,” Kline said. “And it fell on her as well.”
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is part of the Department of Defense, resisted exhuming the Arizona remains for years, saying it would not be pragmatic because it had medical and dental records and relatives’ DNA samples for only a small share of the men – just 1% of the families as of 2021.
Kline and an organization he founded, Operation 85, has spent the past three years locating families and arranging for them to share their DNA. Only about 15 of the 1,500 people he contacted declined to participate.
So far, family members of 626 sailors and Marines have shared their DNA, Kline said. That’s just under 60% of the crew members still missing, and sample kits are still coming in.
Kline was frustrated and even infuriated by the military’s past reluctance. But his feelings have changed.
“I’m happy that we were able to kind of pull this together and turn that hard no,” Kline said.
The remains will be taken to the agency’s lab at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for analysis. DNA samples will be sent to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The decision to disinter the Arizona unknowns was first reported by the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes.
In 2024, Lou Conter, the sole living survivor from the sinking of the USS Arizona, died in California at the age of 102.
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