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Oklahoma

Ship Designation: 
BB-37
Date Lost: 
Sunday, December 7, 1941
Multiple Air Attacks at Pearl Harbor
Three torpedo hits occurred to Oklahoma soon after the attack commenced. As ship began to capsize, two more torpedoes struck; as men abandoned ship Japanese planes dove in for strafing runs. Oklahoma rolled over with mast touching the bottom of the harbor. ... 415 killed during the attack and 32 others were wounded. Many crew members were trapped in the overturned battleship surviving in pockets of air until rescuers could cut access holes in the bottom of the ship to rescue them; a total of 32 survivors were ultimately saved.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 429

Name Service Branchsort descending
SK 3c Wallace Eakes USN
MM 1c Eugene Eberhardt USN
Sea 1c Buford Dyer USN
Matt 1c Cyril Dusset USN
F 1c Kenneth Doernenburg USN
SF 3c John Donald USN
EM 2c Leaman Dill USN
F 2c Carl Dorr USN
Sea 2c Bernard Doyle USN
Matt 1c Ignacio Farfan USN
MM 1c Luther Farmer USN
Mus 2c Charlton Ferguson USN
F 1c Lawrence Fecho USN
Sea 2c David Edmonston USN
RM 3c Earl Ellis USN
RM 3c Bruce Ellison USN
Matt 1c Julius Ellsberry USN
Ens John England USN
Sea 2c James Flanagan USN
OStd 2c Felcismo Florese USN

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Prepared by CAPT R.O. Strange USN (Ret.)