- State: HI
- NPCA Region: Pacific
- Est. Date: 1980
Lying beneath the surface of the calm waters of Pearl Harbor, just outside downtown Honolulu are the remains of the USS Arizona and the more than 1,000 members of the boat's crew who lost their lives when it sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A stark white memorial rises out of the water above the sunken ship to commemorate the Arizona sailors and all of the civilians and servicemen and women who were killed on that "date which will live in infamy." Parts of the ship can be seen from the memorial, as well as dark slicks from the oil that still leaks from the ship more than 65 years later. The interior of the memorial displays the names of all the Arizona sailors who perished along with the names of crew members who survived the Pearl Harbor attack yet chose to be buried with their shipmates.
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I am a park ranger at World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (formerly named the USS Arizona Memorial National Memorial). Our story is now of the entire war in the Pacific. We host approximately 1.7 million people a year from all over the world. Our site is…
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