A Navy fireman who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified 84 years later, military officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden enlisted in the military in 1939, according to a newspaper clipping shared by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was from New Bern, North Carolina.

Bowden was on the USS California when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941, the DPAA said in a news release . The ship was torpedoed and bombed, and caught fire before flooding and slowly sinking. Bowden, 29, was one of more than 100 men who died aboard the vessel.

Navy personnel worked until April 1942 to recover remains of the deceased crew, which were interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries in Hawaii. Only 44 of the sets of remains

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