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USS Arizona Memorial

On Dec 7, 1941, at approximately 7:00am Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor. Over 2000 U.S. lives were lost that day, some of which were civilians. On the USS Arizona alone, approximately 1177 sailors died, many of which are still entombed in the body of the ship, which sank where it was moored, on Battleship Row. We visited the memorial on our last day in Hawaii.
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To the right of the memorial, you can see the quay where the Arizona was moored.  At the left end, you can see the visitors getting on the boat to be ferried back
to the museum.  The rusty protuberance in front of the memorial is the base of gun turret number 3.

According to the designer of the memorial:

The sag in the center indicates our initial defeat, while the uplifted ends signify our ultimate victory.
The design at the end (the windows in the shrine room) signifies the tree of life.
USS Arizona Memorial, as seen from the museum

To the right of the memorial, you can see the quay where the Arizona was moored. At the left end, you can see the visitors getting on the boat to be ferried back
to the museum. The rusty protuberance in front of the memorial is the base of gun turret number 3.

According to the designer of the memorial:

The sag in the center indicates our initial defeat, while the uplifted ends signify our ultimate victory.
The design at the end (the windows in the shrine room) signifies the tree of life.

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The USS Missouri, while not commissioned at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, was the ship on which the Japanese surrender was signed.

If I recall correctly, it also saw action in Gulf War I, and was decommissioned fairly recently.  It shows you sort of what the Arizona looked like before she was attacked.
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The USS Missouri, while not commissioned at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, was the ship on which the Japanese surrender was signed.

If I recall correctly, it also saw action in Gulf War I, and was decommissioned fairly recently. It shows you sort of what the Arizona looked like before she was attacked.

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Each white block shows where a battleship was anchored that morning.  
These quays have now been painted white, and labelled with the name/number of the ship that moored there.
Mooring quays

Each white block shows where a battleship was anchored that morning.
These quays have now been painted white, and labelled with the name/number of the ship that moored there.

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