It's a confounding mystery of World War II: What happened to the 136 missing sailors from the explosion and sinking of the USS Turner? The Pentagon still officially lists 136 Turner sailors as missing. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the federal office responsible for recovering and identifying the nation's missing war dead, didn't respond to repeated requests from The Associated Press about Darcy's findings. Darcy said comingling of unidentified remains was a fairly common practice, particularly when the Navy was overburdened at the height of World War II. Several relatives of now-deceased Turner sailors who survived the disaster told the AP their loved ones also were never told about the graves.

Source: Fox News November 20, 2016 16:52 UTC