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{{Identified Infobox| title1=Bernard Wimmer| image1=File:BernardWimmer.jpg| name=Bernard Ramon Wimmer| sex= {{M}}| age= 29| discovered= 1941 - 1944| location= Pearl Harbor, Hawaii| missing_from=Pearl Harbor, Hawaii| disappeared= December 7, 1941| identified=September 28, 2020| span= 76 - 79 years| cod={{KIA}}}}
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{{Identified Infobox| title1=Bernard Wimmer| image1=File:BernardWimmer.jpg| name=Bernard Ramon Wimmer| sex= {{M}}| age= 29| discovered= 1941 - 1944| location= Pearl Harbor, Hawaii| missing_from=Pearl Harbor, Hawaii| disappeared= December 7, 1941| identified=September 28, 2020| span= 79 years| cod={{KIA}}}}
 
 
'''Bernard Ramon Wimmer''' was a United States Navy sailor who was was killed on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His remains were identified on September 28, 2020 along with [[Shelby Treadway]], [[Rodger Butts]], and [[Charles Jones]].
 
'''Bernard Ramon Wimmer''' was a United States Navy sailor who was was killed on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His remains were identified on September 28, 2020 along with [[Shelby Treadway]], [[Rodger Butts]], and [[Charles Jones]].
 
==Early Life==
 
==Early Life==
Bernard Wimmer was born on October 13, 1912 to Sidney and Eva Wimmer in Princeton, West Virginia. The first of their six children, Treadway joined the United States Navy. At the time of his death, his rank was Fire Controlman 1st Class.
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Bernard Wimmer was born on October 13, 1912 to Sidney and Eva Wimmer in Princeton, West Virginia. The first of their six children, Wimmer joined the United States Navy. At the time of his death, his rank was Fire Controlman 1st Class.
 
==Pearl Harbor Attack==
 
==Pearl Harbor Attack==
 
At about 7:48 AM on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service conducted a surprise military strike against the United States at the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Oklahoma was one of the first ships to be attacked. The ship was torpedoed and capsized. Wimmer was killed during the attack, though his exact circumstances are unknown. His remains were located between 1941 and 1944, but not identified. As a result, he was considered Missing in Action while his remains were buried in the Punchbowl at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 
At about 7:48 AM on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service conducted a surprise military strike against the United States at the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Oklahoma was one of the first ships to be attacked. The ship was torpedoed and capsized. Wimmer was killed during the attack, though his exact circumstances are unknown. His remains were located between 1941 and 1944, but not identified. As a result, he was considered Missing in Action while his remains were buried in the Punchbowl at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Bernard Ramon Wimmer was a United States Navy sailor who was was killed on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. His remains were identified on September 28, 2020 along with Shelby Treadway, Rodger Butts, and Charles Jones.

Early Life

Bernard Wimmer was born on October 13, 1912 to Sidney and Eva Wimmer in Princeton, West Virginia. The first of their six children, Wimmer joined the United States Navy. At the time of his death, his rank was Fire Controlman 1st Class.

Pearl Harbor Attack

At about 7:48 AM on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service conducted a surprise military strike against the United States at the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Oklahoma was one of the first ships to be attacked. The ship was torpedoed and capsized. Wimmer was killed during the attack, though his exact circumstances are unknown. His remains were located between 1941 and 1944, but not identified. As a result, he was considered Missing in Action while his remains were buried in the Punchbowl at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Overall, 2,335 Americans were killed in the attack, 429, including Wimmer, were on the USS Oklahoma. The surprise attack led to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy". The following day, the US Congress declared war on Japan which led to the United States' formal entry into World War II.

Wimmer's name is featured on the USS Oklahoma Memorial and the Honolulu Memorial of the Courts of the Missing.

Identification

In 2015, the Department of Defense and the Defense POW/MIA accounting agency initiated a program to exhume the unidentified sailors of the USS Oklahoma to try and match their DNA against the DNA of family members whose loved ones were never identified. Scientists at the D.P.A.A. used anthropological analysis and scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis to identify the servicemen.

Through these methods, Bernard Wimmer was identified on September 28, 2020.

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