uss oklahoma city sinking

The USS Oklahoma capsized at 8:08 A.M., approximately 12 minutes after the first torpedo hit. Hundreds of men were trapped below her decks. They found themselves in a bizarre world turned upside down, in pitch-black darkness, as compartments filled with water. Pentagon To Exhume Remains Of Sailors From USS Oklahoma : The Two-Way The ship with 429 sailors and Marines capsized Dec. 7, 1941, in the attack on Pearl Harbor; 388 were unidentified. The ... Laid down on December 8th, 1942 as a Cleveland Class Light Cruiser, the USS Oklahoma City commissioned into US Navy service on December 22nd, 1944