1916 Postcard USS Oklahoma BB-37 Brooklyn Bridge NYC - Destroyed at Pearl Harbor for Sale

1916 Postcard USS Oklahoma BB-37 Brooklyn Bridge NYC - Destroyed at Pearl Harbor For Sale

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1916 Postcard USS Oklahoma BB-37 Brooklyn Bridge NYC - Destroyed at Pearl Harbor:
$249.99

This real photo postcard depicts the USS Oklahoma BB-37 passing under the Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Manhattan to Brooklyn in New York City. The year is 1916, and after many years of service, it met its eventual downfall in Pearl Harbor, where it sank as the result of the surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7th 1941.

Approximate size: 5.5 inches x 3.5 inches

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. Oklahoma was modernized between 1927 and 1929. In 1936, she rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. On returning to the West Coast in August of the same year, Oklahoma spent the rest of her service in the Pacific.
On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet (15 m) into burning oil on water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. The ship was salvaged in 1943. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947.

Please inspect the pictures, as they give the best representation of condition. May have discoloring, edge or corner wear, marks, creases, fading, smudges, corner or edge bends, tears, or corners missing.

(D33 inventory number)