USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Hiskett, D.)

WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Denis H. Hiskett, 20, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 17, 2021.

On Dec. 7, 1941, Hiskett was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Hiskett.

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Hiskett’s personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeLlEAK.

On February 17, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Fireman First Class Denis Hubert Hiskett, missing from World War II.

Fireman First Class Denis Hubert Hiskett entered the U.S. Navy from Nebraska and served on the USS Oklahoma. On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when attacked by Japanese forces. The Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. Four hundred and twenty-nine sailors and Marines were lost, including F1c Hiskett. In the days, months, and years following the attack, remains of men lost aboard the Oklahoma were recovered. Those remains that could not be identified were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu, Hawaii (NMCP). In 2015, the DPAA received authorization to exhume unknown remains associated with the Oklahoma and reexamine them using advances in forensic technology. From June through November 2015, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) personnel, in cooperation with cemetery officials, exhumed all remaining caskets associated with the USS Oklahoma at the NMCP and transferred the remains to DPAA laboratories. Laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of F1c Hiskett.

Fireman First Class Hiskett is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.