The U.S. Navy identified a Pearl Harbor victim as a Memphis man, killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Only twenty years old at the time, Fireman First Class John Winter Martin was aboard the USS California on the morning of the attacks.
That ship was torpedoed twice and bombed on the upper deck.
Although Martin’s remains were never recovered, advanced forensics identified him by way of DNA and dental records.
This story was released just one day before Veterans Day, November 11.
