[hanamizu]

West Virginia, on the other hand, took something like 8 torpedoes at Pearl Harbor.

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She capsized. Men could hear sailors trapped inside pointing out messages in code. The last ones stopped on the 25th...

[sarge83]

The USS Oklahoma capsized, was righted and refloated but sank under tow to the west coast. The USS West Virginia was counter flooded to sink sitting up right.

The USS Franklin was repaired in NewYork and sent to mothball in 1947. She was never modernized like most of the other Essex class carriers in the 1950’s. She was scrapped in 1966.