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Gov. Stitt announces new USS Oklahoma submarine, named after ship sunk at Pearl Harbor
Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced that a new U.S. Navy submarine now under construction will be named the USS Oklahoma. "Not since the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was sunk by the Japanese when ...
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USS Oklahoma searching for sponsors to reach goal of $1 million
TULSA, Okla. — The USS Oklahoma is asking for help in raising money to bring the ship to life. The Virginia Class Fast Attack Nuclear Submarine is currently looking for sponsors, or as the Navy ...
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One of the last US survivors of Pearl Harbor dies at 102
He and five other sailors were scrubbing the battleship’s wooden ... He swam to and boarded the USS Maryland, which was moored beside the Oklahoma. Mahaffey was later assigned to the cruiser ...
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After decades lying unknown, USS Oklahoma sailor to rest at Arlington
The Oklahoma was moored on Battleship Row on the morning of Dec ... war’s end by becoming namesake to a destroyer escort. The USS Connolly, formally designated DE-306, was launched Jan. 15 ...
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102 year-old man who survived Pearl Harbor has died
Mahaffey was on board the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, preparing the ship for inspection when it was torpedoed and keeled over on its side. He jumped in the water and swam to the USS Maryland ...