USS Arizona: The Cost of Freedom

USS Arizona: The Cost of Freedom
A diver photographed after ascending from the oily interior of the sunken battleship USS Arizona. Photograph taken at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the days following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
It took only nine minutes for the USS Arizona to sink after a bomb hit the magazine, causing a catastrophic explosion.

Of the 1,512 crew members, 1,177 lost their lives, making it the greatest loss of life on any U.S. warship

The ship was never fully salvaged, and it is the final resting place for more than 900 sailors.

Oil fires from the USS Arizona burned for about two and a half days after the attack.

The USS Arizona Memorial, completed in 1962, straddles the sunken hull of the battleship without touching it, serving as a tribute to all those who died during the attack
It took only nine minutes for the USS Arizona to sink after a bomb hit the magazine, causing a catastrophic explosion.
Of the 1,512 crew members, 1,177 lost their lives, making it the greatest loss of life on any U.S. warship.
The ship was never fully salvaged, and it is the final resting place for more than 900 sailors.
Oil fires from the USS Arizona burned for about two and a half days after the attack.