Pearl Harbor LST 353 Victim Pfc. Owen Norris Laid to Rest in Maryland

Army Pfc. Owen M. Norris of the 29th Chemical Decontamination Company, killed in the May 21, 1944 explosion aboard LST 353 at West Loch, Pearl Harbor (more than 100 dead), was scheduled for interment on September 26, 2026 at West Liberty United Methodist Church Cemetery in Marriottsville, Maryland. His remains had been buried as unknowns at Halawa Naval Cemetery and later the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. DPAA scientists exhumed them in November 2024 and identified Norris with modern forensic methods; he was officially accounted for on July 7, 2026.