USS Arizona Memorial facts for kids

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Arizona Memorial 1
The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Arizona Memorial model 2
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.

Images for kids

  • USS Arizona (BB-39) wreck in the 1950s

    Arizona in the 1950s.

  • USS Arizona Memorial

    The USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor

  • USS Arizona oil seepage

    The "tears of the Arizona". Oil slick visible on water's surface above the sunken battleship.

  • Pearl Harbor Visitors Center

    An observation site with interpretive materials; Battleship Row is in the distance

  • USSArizona Bridge Bowfin Stadium

    USS Arizona and museum (center left) and the Admiral Clarey Bridge

  • USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) manning rails for USS Arizona

    Crew of USS Abraham Lincoln (left) manning the rails near Missouri and the USS Arizona Memorial