Washington - The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), announced today that Navy Fire Controlment 2nd Class Geoge Gilbert, 20, of Indianapolis, killed during WWII, was accounted for on August 24, 2020.

On Dec 7, 1941, Gilbert was assigned to the Battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Gilbert.

Reinterment June 6, 2022 at 11:30 A.M. at The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl).