'God Would Help Us, and He Did': Texas Veteran, 103, Recalls 18 Days on Lifeboat

Art Watson lost 50 of his shipmates when his Merchant Marine ship, the SS Oklahoma, was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in 1945. He and 21 other survivors scrambled to lifeboats, realizing it was their only hope of survival.

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