The anchor recovered from the USS Arizona.
Radar monitors saw the Japanese attack approaching, but were told that it was a fleet of planes expected from California. The Japanese sent two waves, thirty minutes apart. In about two hours all the battleships (which were clustered in battleship row) were damaged or sunk.
The memorial sits perpendicular across the sunken ship.
Oil from the Arizona. Next year will be 70 years since the attack.
“To the memory of the gallant men here entombed and their shipmates who gave their lives in action on December 7, 1941 on the U.S.S. Arizona.” The list contains members of the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
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