Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Galajdik were accounted for in 2017, and his name remains permanently inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
-Information provided by the American Battle Monuments Commission

Michael Galajdik is listed as a Notable burial on VA's Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery website. https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/abrahamlincoln.asp


Michael Galajdik was born in 1916 and was raised with the help of a sister. He worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 until 1940, when he joined the U.S. Navy. Fireman First Class Galajdik was on board the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Galajdik received the Purple Heart posthumously and was buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, HI. He is one of many USS Oklahoma dead being identified by the U.S. Army using DNA technologies and dental records. Galadjik's remains were reinterred in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery on April 22, 2017

Navy Honor Guard rifle salute for sailor Michael Galajdik.

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