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## News Release

# Navy Seaman Missing From Pearl Harbor Attack Is Identified (Hickok)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that theremains of a U.S. Navy seaman, missing in action from the attack on Pearl Harbor, have beenidentified and will soon be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Seaman Second Class Warren P. Hickok of Kalamazoo, Mich. The family has not set adate for his burial.

Hickok was assigned to the Light Mine Layer USS Sicard when the Japanese attacked PearlHarbor on December 7, 1941. Many crewmembers from the Sicard, including Hickok, weredispatched to assist the crew of the USS Cummings, a Navy destroyer docked nearby. The Cummingssucceeded in getting underway and clearing Pearl Harbor, but no casualties were reported aboard thatship. During an investigation to determine who was still unaccounted-for after the attack, it wassurmised that Hickok may have been a casualty aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania. Somecrewmen from the Sicard had been dispatched to the Pennsylvania during the attack, but there was norecord to indicate that Hickok was lost aboard that ship.

In the days following the attack, burial details interred many of the unknown dead in NuuanuCemetery on Oahu. Among those buried were an unknown sailor identified only as X-2. Followingthe war, the Army Graves Registration Service oversaw the disinterment of unknown remains,including the X-2 remains. They could not be identified, and were reburied in Section E, Grave 731, atthe National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, on June 9, 1949.

In 2004, an avocational historian contacted the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC)in Hawaii and suggested that the remains in Grave 731 may be those of Hickok. Based on availablerecords, JPAC exhumed the grave in June 2005. Forensic anthropologists at JPAC were able to matchthose remains, including dental remains, with detailed information found in Hickok’s World War IImedical and dental records.

Of the 88,000 Americans unaccounted-for from all conflicts, 78,000 are from World War II.For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing Americans,visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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