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USS Oklahoma wearing experimental camouflage, circa 1917. Edwin Taylor Pollock captained the USS Oklahoma from 5 July 1921 to 13 January 1922. USS Oklahoma was a battleship that served in the United States Navy from 2 May 1916, to 1 September 1944. The ship capsized and sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, but she was righted in 1943. While other ships sunk during the ...
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six , protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic.
Ensign John Charles England (December 11, 1920 – December 7, 1941) was an officer in the United States Navy.He died on USS Oklahoma after it was torpedoed and sank in the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Smoke rises as the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma sticks out of the water next to the USS West Virginia in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. ... according to a list maintained by Kathleen Farley ...
He was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, a battleship moored at Pearl Harbor, in 1941. On Dec. 7, Auld was aboard the ship when Japanese pilots attacked Pearl Harbor.
William F. Gusie was a 19-year-old Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Class aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship was torpedoed and sunk, killing 429 sailors and marines ...
Ward enlisted in the United States Navy at Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 25, 1940.After basic training, he reported on board the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37).. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Oklahoma took three torpedoes soon after the attack began.
The battleship USS Oklahoma, right, lays capsized alongside the USS Maryland following Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The Oklahoma’s position in the harbor made it an ...