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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
WT 2c Porter Rich USN
RM 3c Clyde Ridenour USN
Sea 2c David Riley USN
SK 3c Eldon Ray USN
F 1c Dan Reagan USN
WT 1c Leo Regan USN
RM 3c Irwin Rice USN
Mus 2c Charles Ruse USN
EM 3c Roman Sadlowski USN
Y 3c Edmund Ryan USN
Sea 1c Lyal Savage USN
Sea 1c John Savidge USN
F 1c Paul Saylor USN
Sea 2c Charles Saunders USN
Sea 1c Kenneth Sampson USN
CMM Dean Sanders USN
F 1c Walter Rogers USN
Sea 1c Harold Roesch USN
Sea 1c Joseph Rouse USN
FC 1c Edward Shelden USN

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