How many bodies were never recovered in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 1

All these guys," he said, motioning to the white walls inscribed with thousands of names, "were lost at sea . Their bodies were never recovered." Following the Dec 7 , 1941, attack, the bodies of 945 sailors were never recovered and remain entombed in the battleship Unfortunately every article you read on Pearl Harbor gives different numbers of the dead and unaccounted for. The Pearl Harbor attack lasted 110 minutes. The following information I found on casualties was posted by a man that was there! So, I'm taking his word for it. 2,403 dead

1,178 wounded

640 UNACCOUNTED FOR

400 UNIDENTIFIED after going down on the Oklahoma

2,390 men entombed in the sunken remains of the USS Arizona (not sure if this is the figure for 2,403 dead.) From the accounts given on Pearl Harbor many of the bombs the Japanese dropped had the name of the U.S. ship on them! The bombs that made clean hits caused fires, gasoline/oil everywhere (including the surrounding water) and the sailors were terribly burned beyond recognition and men were trapped in those ships and some went down with them. Many remains were simply body parts and buried as such with no dog tags or any form of identification. There is a battle going on to this day with a few of the remaining survivors of Pearl Harbor trying to identify those bodies which the U.S. Government made little effort to do so. Families to this day still want to know what happened to some of their loved ones. It's apparent the U.S. Navy never kept good records of their crews. It's true that some sailors were deployed from one ship to the other, but better records should have been kept.