USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
Digest more
Sunday is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, marking nearly 85 years since the USS Arizona was sunk, on a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would “live in infamy.” And, it turns out, the ship has been leaking oil since that time.
A Green Valley retiree is among those who submitted DNA samples that could soon be used to help identify USS Arizona servicemen buried as unknowns.
Air Force Times on MSN
After 84 years, USS Arizona’s unknowns may soon be identified
Operation 85, a family advocacy group, has worked tirelessly the past two years to obtain the DNA of 643 descendents of those onboard the USS Arizona.
A couple dozen people, many of them military veterans, gathered Sunday at North Little Rock's Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum to pay their respects to history.
Early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese torpedoed and dive bombers as well as fighters first struck Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay on Oahu’s windward side in a first wave before heading toward the Pearl Harbor, the United States largest naval base in the Pacific.
Some of the first sailors to wear the Arizona name on their shoulders since World War II paid a special visit to Tucson on Veterans Day to learn more about the legacy they have been chosen to carry on. Nine active-duty servicemen assigned to the new USS ...
For World War II history enthusiasts seeking to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, you don't have to go to Hawaii to do so. For the past decade, the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum in North Little Rock has been home to the USS Hoga,