Eighty Years After Pearl Harbor, DNA Identifies Two Brothers | TIME
The Honor Guard’s three-volley salute in Honolulu marks the end of an 80-year-old mystery. It traces back to Dec. 7, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. By the time the bombs stopped dropping, more than 2,403 Americans lay dead on sunken ships, in churning water or on sandy beaches. Most of these troops were left at the bottom of the ocean, where there were no intact skeletons, and little clues of the fallen service members’ identities. The remains they could recover were buried anonymously as "unknowns" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl. Only now are two of those troops, brothers Harold and William Trapp, being laid to rest under headstones bearing their own names. It was a puzzle ultimately unlocked by science and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The DPAA is an obscure unit inside the Pentagon, which scours the globe for the remains of long-lost service members who vanished in the air, land or sea during combat. This short documentary from TIME takes viewers along as the DPAA utilizes DNA and forensic analysis to identify the Trapp brothers, and ultimately bring them home to their family. CONNECT WITH TIME Subscribe to TIME’s YouTube channel ►► http://ti.me/subscribe-time Subscribe to TIME: time.com/subscribe Get the day’s top headlines to your inbox, curated by TIME editors: http://ti.me/the-brief Follow us: Twitter: / time Facebook: / time Instagram: / time Magazine: https://ti.me/37XvyhZ Newsletter: https://ti.me/2GU4Gn0 ABOUT TIME TIME brings unparalleled insight, access and authority to the news. A 24/7 news publication with nearly a century of experience, TIME’s coverage shapes how we understand our world. Subscribe for daily news, interviews, science, technology, politics, health, entertainment, and business updates, as well as exclusive videos from TIME’s Person of the Year, TIME 100 and more created by TIME’s acclaimed writers, producers and editors. Eighty Years After Pearl Harbor, Two Brothers Are Finally Identified By DNA https://ti.me/2GVJZHa
