Upton was a Navy radioman aboard the USS Utah when torpedoes hit the battleship and quickly capsized it, the nonprofit ...

Warren Upton was a 22-year-old Navy radioman assigned to the USS Utah, a demilitarized battleship moored at Pearl Harbor, when the first of two torpedoes struck the vessel the morning of Dec.

He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in ... He remembers sailors trapped on the capsized USS Oklahoma tapping on the hull of their ship to get rescued, and caring ...