The Oklahoma sat in the Brest Harbor waiting to escort President Woodrow Wilson
home from the Versailles Treaty.
Escorting President Wilson back to the United States in 1919
"When we went out to sea on maneuvers, and if we saw something, we had to compare it with something. We would say it looked like a gun or a periscope. Seawood would come up and we had to identify it. I identified a periscope and before I could say another word, the whole fleet zigzagged and fired at it and kept on moving so they wouldn't get shot. As we passed, the periscope was still sticking out of the water. We sent a small boat to check on it and it was a table with three legs shot off and one leg sticking in the air."
Seaman Jerry Jarrett
