USS Oklahoma salvage operations at Pearl Harbor on June 18, 1943.. After WWI, the ship was modernized to fit the times. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma was one of the first ...

CARY, N.C. – Dawn Silsbee and her siblings never knew their Uncle Bert — he died years before they were born. But they saw what his loss did to their family. "Our grandmother openly wept ...

The remains of seven crew members missing since the USS Oklahoma capsized in the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have been identified, the military said Monday.

An aerial view of salvage operations on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. (U.S. Navy) The remains of two Navy sailors ...

USS Oklahoma at the Puget Sound Navy Yard on September 26, 1940. Image courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society. USS Oklahoma salvage operations at Pearl Harbor on June 18, 1943.

Banks was 20 years old when he was assigned to the USS Oklahoma battleship, which was moored at Ford Island on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese aircraft attacked. Multiple aerial torpedoes struck the ...

Naval veteran’s groups and others will observe Pearl Harbor Day at the USS Oklahoma Memorial, located at the Veterans War Memorial on the southeast corner of the Oklahoma State Capitol complex ...

After Pearl Harbor, ‘it got real quiet. We saw the USS Oklahoma upside-down.’ As soon as I graduated, in 1939, I enlisted for six years. I had no idea what was in store for me when I signed up.

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — It took Japanese torpedo bombers less than an hour to sink the battleship USS Arizona during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The USS Oklahoma floats capsized near the USS Maryland. The ships were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on September 7, 1941. © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ...

Naval veteran’s groups and others will observe Pearl Harbor Day at the USS Oklahoma Memorial, located at the Veterans War Memorial on the southeast corner of the Oklahoma State Capitol complex ...