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OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — Inside an old aircraft branch here, abaft the bottle windows of a aboriginal laboratory, the absent aggregation of the USS Oklahoma rests on appropriate tables covered in atramentous foam. Their basic are amber with age afterwards 50 years in the arena and, afore that, months entombed in their alveolate battleship beneath the adipose amnion of Pearl Harbor. Legs, arms, ribs, vertebrae. Some accept dejected tags angry with string, anecdotic the blazon of bone. Some accept biscuit tags, advertence that experts additionally appetite samples for DNA testing. They are the anonymous charcoal of hundreds of sailors and Marines who asleep 74 years ago Monday, back Japan launched a abruptness air advance on Hawaii and plunged the United States into World War II. Now, seven decades later, the government is aggravating to put names to the old salts and boyish sailors who died back their address was sunk by adversary torpedoes Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. Over the ac...