Remains of killed sailor come home

ALBANY, N.Y. — The remains of a New York sailor killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 have been brought home for reburial.

A flag-draped coffin containing the remains of Charles M. Stern Jr. arrived at Albany’s airport Friday afternoon.

Stern was among the 429 crew members killed when the battleship Oklahoma capsized after being hit by aerial torpedoes during the surprise attack on U.S. military installations in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.

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Fair winds and following seas, Ensign Charles M. Stern Jr.

The 26-year-old ensign’s remains were among those the military had been unable to identify.

They were buried in a cemetery in Hawaii until 2015, when the military began exhuming remains of the Oklahoma’s unknowns.

Stern, a graduate of Albany High School and Dartmouth College, joined the Navy in 1940.

He’ll be buried Sunday at a local cemetery.

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