USS Arizona Memorial

The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

A model of the Memorial on display showing the Memorial and the ship underneath it.

The USS Arizona Memorial is in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It is to remember the sailors killed when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese. During the attack 1,177 sailors were killed on the USS Arizona. The memorial is located on top of the sunken USS Arizona. People can walk over the ship to look at it.

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USS Arizona sinking and burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
USS Arizona in the 1950s.
A letter RAdm J.J. Manning to Robert Ripley regarding the need for a permanent Pearl Harbor memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor
"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"— inscription in marble with the names of Arizona's honored dead
The "tears of the Arizona". Oil slick visible on water's surface above the sunken battleship.
The USS Missouri and USS Arizona memorials.
An observation site with interpretive materials; Battleship Row is in the distance
USS Arizona and museum (center left) and the Admiral Clarey Bridge
USINDOPACOM Commander Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, and a U.S. Navy sailor at the Memorial, 27 December 2016.