[VOA]

AnitJen, thanks for the ping.

The unfortunate Oklahoma, an older ship with much less adequate protection
against underwater damage, was hit by up to nine torpedoes.

Here's my day-late (Dec. 8) two-cents:
Okies over about the age of 40 remember BB37 Oklahoma with a sense of pride.
The Japanese couldn't really sink the our namesake battleship.
And our battleship simply refused to be cut up to make razor blades, as it somehow slipped
free from it's tow ropes and went to the bottom of the Pacific while being towed
to the West Coast to be cut up for salvage.

Hey, when you are the neighbor of a nation-state like Texas, you do try
to look on the bright side of things!

[Jen]

Thanks for telling about the Oklahoma. I know very little about Naval history and I always learn so much from what everyone posts.