A Minnesota soldier who was killed at Pearl Harbor has been identified and will be buried near his hometown of Kellogg, Minnesota.
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Navy Seaman 2nd Class Lloyd R. Timm was accounted for on Sept. 27, 2019 and will be buried on May 25, 2020 in Wabasha, Minnesota.
Lloyd Timm was on the USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The battleship was capsized by multiple torpedo hits, which killed 429 crewmen, including Timm.
Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were then interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries.
In September of 1947, members of the American Graves Registration Service disinterred the remains and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks, where the identities of 35 crew members were confirmed. The unidentified remains were then placed at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In 1949 a military board classified those who were not identified as non-recoverable, which included Timm.
More than 65 years later, between June and November of 2015, DPAA exhumed the remains for analysis. Timm was eventually identified through dental and anthropological analysis. The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System also used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome DNA (Y-STR) analysis.
There are currently 72,639 still unaccounted for from World War II with approximately 30,000 assessed as possibly recoverable. Timm's name was one of the names written on the Walls of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, but now a rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate that he's been accounted for.
For family information, contact the Navy Service Casualty Office at (800) 443-9298.
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