From Exploring Oklahoma History.
One of the three anchors added during the Navy's modernization of the USS Oklahoma in 1927, it was aboard the USS Oklahoma that fateful day in Pearl Harbor.
It was manufactured in 1919 by Baldt Anchor Company in Chester, Pennsylvania, and weighs in at 19,860 pounds.
It is now in Oklahoma City today thanks to the efforts of Rear Admiral John E. Kirkpatrick and arrived in town in 1961. It is now in ts third location at NW 12th Avenue and Broadway.
A Real Piece of History. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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