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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.
On December 6, 2019, the US Department of Defense announced that 236 remains had been identified from Oklahoma and that 152 had yet to be identified. [36] [37] As of Fiscal year 2020, 267 missing crew have been accounted for. [38] In 2016, the United States Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency resolved to identify the Oklahoma crew using DNA testing.
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 ...
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, and died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7.
Rescue teams at work on the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), seeking crew members trapped inside, 7 December 1941. The starboard bilge keel is visible at the top of the upturned hull.
Francis Flaherty was born on March 15, 1919, in Charlotte, Michigan.He was a parishioner at St. Mary's Catholic Church while living in Charlotte. Flaherty attended Charlotte High School, graduating in 1936, and enrolled at the University of Michigan.
After receiving his commission, Sieglaff was assigned to the USS Oklahoma (BB-37). In May 1933 he received order to attend Submarine School at the US Submarine Base in New London, Connecticut graduating six months later. His first submarine assignment was aboard the USS S-37 in the Asiatic Fleet until February
Wendt's first assignment was aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37). In March 1935 he transferred to the destroyer minelayer USS Ramsay (DD-124). Detached in December 1935, he returned to the Academy as assistant coach of crew until June 1936, when he reported aboard the destroyer leader USS Moffett (DD-362) until June 1939.