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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Pearl Harbor survivor Warren Upton (right) at the USS Utah Memorial Sunset Ceremony at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 6, 2019. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Allen Michael Amani ...
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.
James Ward, 20-year-old sailor, was one of 11 to receive a posthumous Medal of Honor for heroic actions related to the Pearl Harbor attack. USS Oklahoma hero at Pearl Harbor to get Arlington ...
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 ...