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A United States Navy sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor will be laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, 80 years after his tragic death.
Herbert 'Bert' Jacobson's body was identified in 2019, but his burial was postponed for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jacobson was one of the over 400 sailors and marines who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by nine Japanese torpedoes on December 7, 1941. He was 21-years-old when he died.
Jacobson's remains were identified as a part of Project Oklahoma, which the Defense Department launched in 2015 to try to put names to the bodies of nearly 400 servicemen who died aboard the Oklahoma but remained unidentified.
Jacobson's family said they had long ago given up hope of ever finding out for sure what happened to him, and said his identification and burial will finally give them some closure.
'This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert,' nephew Brad McDonald told CBS News, 'Where he is and that he's being finally
