Original Item: Only One Available. Here at IMA we just received a very beautiful collection of U.S. Navy ships’ pennants, most of which were ships that were in port during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. This pennant is for the USS Oklahoma, which was on Battleship Row during the attack.

On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo-bomber airplanes 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 hot 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 pennant is of multi-piece construction of purple and gold felt and has the image of the Oklahoma and all the writing painted on a leather surface. The top portion features the U.S.S. Oklahoma with the words U.S.S. OKLAHOMA painted in black on the leather portion and the words are also in gold felt on the main body. We believe the pennant to be dated from the late 1920's to the early 1930’s, before the U.S. involvement in WWII. The condition is great for its age, but it does have the expected fading and moth nips, nothing extensive. It measures from corner to corner 33” with a hoist side width of approximately 11”.

On the hanging side of the pennant is the ship's sweetheart type pin. The pin is in the patriotic Naval Style of WWII, an American flag shield with an anchor. Across the top is USS with OKLAHOMA across the shield. A beautiful condition pin with fully intact enamel.

This is a very beautiful U.S. Navy pennant of a historic ship that survived the attack at Pearl Harbor and took the fight to the enemy in the Pacific.

Come ready to display!

USS Oklahoma
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, Oklahoma 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-bomber airplanes 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 hot 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. In 1943, Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. 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 in 1947, while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay.