The USS Oklahoma's watertight integrity had been sacrificed due to an upcoming inspection.
After the ship was repeatedly struck by torpedoes and started keeling over, everyone had to make a life or death decision. Some decided to get off the ship and crawled over to the USS Maryland on tie-off lines.
The Japanese torpedoes had plywood boxes attached to their rear fins which kept them from going too deep in the water, necessary because of the shallowness of Pearl Harbor.
Five midget submarines managed to penetrate into the harbor. It is thought that a torpedo from one of them hit the Oklahoma. These torpedoes were more powerful and would make a much bigger hole in a ship than the ones dropped by the planes.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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