Via WAPT:
The body of U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Jim H. Johnston has been returned home to Mississippi 75 years after he was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The body arrived Tuesday morning at the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport, where a ceremony was held. Johnston’s body was loaded in a hearse and was to escorted from Jackson to Wesson.
Johnston was aboard the USS Oklahoma when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, by Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and two-man submarines. The USS Oklahoma capsized, killing 429 — the majority of whom were sailors and U.S. Marines. Many of those killed were never identified.