NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Pentagon officials say the remains of an American sailor from upstate, and another sailor from New Jersey who were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, have been identified.
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The remains of Charles M. Stern Jr of Albany, and Angelo Gabriele of Trenton have finally been accounted for.
Stern, 26, was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma when it was sank in the Japanese aerial attack on Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
The Oklahoma was hit by multiple torpedoes and capsized. Stern and more than 400 other crew members were killed. The Navy spent the next three years recovering remains from the wreck. They were interred in nearby cemeteries.
Stern's remains were among those disinterred in 2015, in an attempt to identify the Oklahoma's remains.
Gabriele was 21 when he was killed, NJ.com reports.
He served as a fireman on the USS West Virginia. The battleship was struck with multiple torpedoes while moored at Ford Island.
In 1999, his sister Mae Gabriele Maffezzoli, who would die in 2012, told the Times of Trenton that her brother was trapped in an engine room when the ship went down, and her mother refused to accept a body. Her brother had promised he would be home for Christmas.
"We lost a good brother that day," she said, "My God, he was a great brother."
Gabriele was identified after 35 caskets were disinterred in 2017. He will be given a funeral in Bucks County, PA on April 29.