Omaha Forensic Lab Works to Identify Pearl Harbor Victims

RP Members we may be able to identify and lay to rest more veterans from WWII and Peral Harbor. Couldn't this be used for Korea, Vietnam, etc.?

For two years after a gala grand opening in June 2013, the tables in the new $5 million forensic lab at Offutt Air Force Base lay mostly bare and empty.

Intended to give the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command a lot more space to study the bones of unidentified soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, the sprawling new lab remained underused.

That has changed. Nearly all of the laboratory's 56 tables now are filled with thousands of human bones, tagged and neatly laid out for future identification.

And following a forced reorganization of its parent command -- now called the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency -- the Offutt lab has a new director, several new forensic anthropologists and a new mission identifying World War II remains from Pearl Harbor and the European theater.
"We have a better idea where we're going," said Franklin Damann, director of the Offutt laboratory.