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MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDERS

Pearl Harbor sailor killed at 17 finally identified through DNA, headed home to Arkansas after 82 years

May 26, 2026 · American Frontline News Staff

Royle Bradford Luker was seventeen years old when Japanese torpedoes tore into the USS West Virginia at Ford Island on the morning of December 7, 1941. He died that day alongside 105 of his shipmates. For more than eight decades,...

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Pat JansenMay 27, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Thank the good Lord and the Defense Agency POW/MIA ACCOUNTING for finally putting Royle in a MARKED grave. No longer an "unknown" soldier. He is finally home.

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