The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Monday that Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Johnson, 24, of Hurdsfield, who was killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 29, ...
He was among 429 sailor whose bodies were recovered from the U.S.S. Oklahoma after the Japanese sunk the battleship on December 7th, 1941. Just over 30 of those sailors could be identified.