Where Is USS Oklahoma Now? The Battleship That Sank Twice

On 7 December 1941, USS Oklahoma rolled over at Berth F-5 in under twelve minutes, trapping hundreds of men inside her hull. Navy Yard workers cut 32 of them free. Then the Navy did something no one had done before: it pulled a 583-foot battleship upright with 21 electric winches on Ford Island. And after all that, she was never repaired — and in 1947 she sank a second time, under tow, 500 miles from Hawaii. This is the story of where USS Oklahoma is now: the ship, the men she carried, and what is left of her. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 1:17 The ship nobody remembers 2:18 Twelve minutes 4:03 The tapping 6:14 Why not leave her? 7:10 The machine 8:31 A hundred days 9:26 Not worth saving 10:27 The last tow 11:28 The men she carried 12:45 What's left 13:41 The answer If someone in your family served aboard USS Oklahoma, tell their story in the comments. SOURCES & CREDITS Archival photographs: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (NH series) and U.S. National Archives (80-G series, S-082 salvage series). Footage: DVIDS / U.S. Department of Defense (AFN Pacific; National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific; USS Arizona Memorial). The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. 3D model: "Uss Arizona" by martyn169 (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/uss-a..., licensed under CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b.... Modified into USS Oklahoma for an illustrative cross-section diagram. Music and sound effects: Storyblocks. AI DISCLOSURE Scenes marked RECONSTRUCTION on screen are AI-generated illustrations of real events, not real footage. Real, named people are never given AI-generated faces. Subscribe for more WWII naval documentaries:    / @thesteelrecord   Business inquiries: Windd Cross LLC #USSOklahoma #PearlHarbor #WW2