2026年3月14日 / 美国东部时间上午11:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国官员周五证实，在珍珠港袭击事件中沉没的”加利福尼亚”号战舰上，又一名水手的遗体在八十多年后被确认身份。
美国国防部战俘/失踪人员会计局在新闻稿中表示，26岁的美国海军一等水兵克莱德·C·麦克米恩斯（Clyde C. McMeans）于2025年11月25日被正式确认身份。
1941年12月7日，麦克米恩斯被分配到停泊在福特岛珍珠港的”加利福尼亚”号战舰。日本战机对该舰进行了轰炸、鱼雷攻击，引发火灾后，战舰逐渐沉没。26岁的麦克米恩斯是103名遇难船员之一。
据太平洋历史公园（Pacific Historic Parks）记载，当时麦克米恩斯正在一艘摩托艇上帮助其他水手上岸，该摩托艇被炸弹击中。他被报告失踪，后来被宣布死亡。
1942年4月，海军人员仍在继续打捞船员遗体，这些遗体被安葬在夏威夷的哈拉瓦和努阿努墓地。除了袭击后最初确认身份的42名”加利福尼亚”号遇难者外，此后又通过法医检测确认了数十名该舰其他船员的身份。
确认”加利福尼亚”号剩余船员身份的工作一直在进行中。
国防部战俘/失踪人员会计局没有提供麦克米恩斯的家乡信息，但他的家人告诉科珀斯克里斯蒂市的KRIS-TV电视台，他在得克萨斯州南部长大，有一个名叫爱德华·麦克米恩斯（Edward McMeans）的兄弟，是一名二战幸存者的军医。该电视台报道称，周二海军告知克莱德·麦克米恩斯的家人，通过DNA和法医分析已确认其遗体身份。
“我们永远爱着他，却从未认识过他，”麦克米恩斯的侄女凯西·赫尔曼（Kathy Herrmann）告诉该电视台。
（图片说明：被炸弹和鱼雷击中的”加利福尼亚”号缓缓沉入珍珠港。最右侧是倾覆的”俄克拉荷马”号残骸。美国国会图书馆）
家人表示，麦克米恩斯的葬礼将于5月1日举行，并将在科珀斯克里斯蒂的海岸弯州立退伍军人公墓安葬，享有军事荣誉。
去年10月，美国军方官员宣布，”加利福尼亚”号上的另一名船员，美国海军一等消防员爱德华·D·鲍登（Edward D. Bowden）也已被确认身份。
本月早些时候，国防部战俘/失踪人员会计局表示，计划发掘88名在珍珠港袭击中遇难的”亚利桑那”号未确认身份的水手和海军陆战队员的遗体。”亚利桑那”号在被轰炸后仅九分钟就沉没，其1177名遇难者占袭击中死亡军人的近一半。
Sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack accounted for 8 decades later: “We’ve loved him forever, without ever knowing him”
March 14, 2026 / 11:40 AM EDT / CBS News
The remains of another sailor aboard the doomed USS California have been identified more than eight decades after the battleship was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday.
U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class Clyde C. McMeans, 26, was officially accounted for on Nov. 25, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release.
On Dec. 7, 1941, McMeans was assigned to the USS California, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. Japanese warplanes attacked, torpedoed and bombed the ship, which caught fire before flooding and slowly sinking. McMeans, 26, was one of 103 crewmen who died.
According to Pacific Historic Parks, McMeans was in a motorboat helping other sailors get to shore when that boat was struck by a bomb. He was reported missing and later declared dead.
Navy personnel worked until April 1942 to recover remains of the crew, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries in Hawaii. In addition to the 42 casualties from the USS California initially identified after the attack, dozens of other crewmen from the ship have since been identified using forensic testing.
Efforts to identify the remaining crew of the USS California have been ongoing.
The DPAA did not provide McMeans’ hometown but his family told KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi that he grew up in South Texas and had a brother, Edward McMeans, a medic who survived World War II. On Tuesday, the Navy told Clyde McMeans’ family that his remains were identified through DNA and forensic analysis, the station reported.
“We’ve loved him forever, without ever knowing him,” Kathy Herrmann, McMeans’ niece, told the station.
Battered by bombs and torpedoes, the USS California slowly sinks into Pearl Harbor. At extreme right is the hulk of the capsized USS Oklahoma. Library of Congress
Family members say McMeans’ funeral service will be held on May 1 and he will be buried at Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery in Corpus Christi with military honors.
In October, U.S. military officials announced another crew member on the USS California, U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden, had also been accounted for.
Earlier this month, the DPAA said it plans to exhume the remains of 88 unidentified sailors and Marines who were killed when theUSS Arizona was attacked at Pearl Harbor. The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack.
