Following an interview with a local television station at the site of the newly built USS Oklahoma Memorial on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, survivor, Retired Senior Chief George A. Brown speaks with Eileen Martinez of the National Park Service about the 429 Sailors who perished during the Pearl Harbor attack aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB 37). Brown said he narrowly escaped through a hatch that had been blown open following the last torpedo to hit the crippled ship during the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. Ford Island USS Oklahoma Memorial 69123

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