USS Oklahoma was a 27,500-ton Nevada class battleship. She was built at Camden, New Jersey. Her armament consisted of 10 x 14" rifles, 21 x 5" guns and 2 x 21" torpedo tubes. On December 7, 1941, the Oklahoma was hit by 5 torpedoes and capsized. Twenty officers and 395 enlisted men were either killed or missing. One of those killed - Father Aloysius Schmitt - was the first American chaplain of any faith to die in the Second World War.

Thursday, December 7, 2006, ground was broken for the new Oklahoma memorial.

Oklahoma Memorial
USS Oklahoma