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The capsized battleship USS Oklahoma is rotated upright while under salvage at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 8 March 1943. The ship is in the 130-degree position, with its bow on the left and the starboard deck edge just rising from the water. Parbuckle salvage, or parbuckling, is the righting of a
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.
The USS Arizona (BB-39) was too badly damaged to be repaired and the USS Utah (BB-31) salvage was stopped. USS Oklahoma was salvaged but not put back in service due to her age. The shipyard did not have all the material and equipment to do the salvage operations and had to be shipped from the mainland, arriving in February 1942.
An aerial view of the ravaged USS Oklahoma in 1943 during a salvage operation in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. By then the remains of the sailors had been recovered but not identified.
USS Oklahoma, righted to about 30 degrees on March 29, 1943, during salvage at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese disabled all seven battleships on Battleship Row. Maryland, Tennessee and Pennsylvania were repaired in only a few weeks [69] and three others within a year, [76] but Oklahoma and Arizona were total losses.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the USS Oklahoma crew, including John Auld, who were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu cemeteries on Oahu ...
Because of the shallow working depth the divers had no diving time limitation leading to fourteen hour days seven days a week. The Salvage Unit list of work included USS California, USS Nevada, USS Utah, USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, USS Oklahoma and USS Oglala. [8] [9] They were assisted by the divers off USS Widgeon and USS Ortolan. [10]
A Michigan native killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will be laid to rest later this month at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.