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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 ascending
Ens Joseph Hittorff USN
Sea 1c Clifford Goodwin USN
F 2c Martin Gara USN
F 1c Edward Johnson USN
Sea 1c John Karli USN
F 1c William Kennedy USN
EM 1c Walter Manning USN
Sea 1c Robert Young USN
Sea 1c Eugene Wicker USN
GM 1c William Silva USN
Cox Layton Banks USN
Sea 1c Rudolph Blitz USN
Bkr 3c Earl Burch USN
Sea 2c David Clark USN
SK 2c Glenn Cyriack USN
Sea 2c Charles Saunders USN
F 1c Andrew Schmitz USN
WT 1c Milo Phillips USN
Matt 3c Issac Parker USN
Sea 1c George Naegle USN

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