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Oklahoma is the capsized (not burning) vessel on the left in front of Maryland. Anchored to the stern of Oklahoma (in the smoke to the right in the picture) was West Virginia which was also sunk by many torpedo hits but it was counterflooded so it sank upright. West Virginia was anchored beside Tennessee and immediately at the front of Arizona (probably not visible to the right in the picture). The fuel oil from both West Virginia and Arizona caught fire after the cataclysmic magazine explosion which destroyed Arizona. This is verifiable by reading the accounts of the Pearl Harbor Attack, the Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Arizona.