Underneath the U.S.S Arizona

From the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's December 7th Special Section.

[@chriswhite3332]

A 21 year old young man with dark hair, blue eyes, and a shy tender smile within a clear complexion lies somewhere below within the Arizona. We love you, great uncle Orville Rusher! Thank you for giving your life that we may live free. We'll see you in Heaven.....

[@billmason2785]

I stood there in 1979...as an eleven Year old boy and it affected me.....God bless those people that put on the uniform

[@jeffreycarlson8723]

It affected me as an 18 year old kid back in 1985.

[@ozzy4266]

my great grandfather Rash was stationed in San Diego Harbor on December 7th 1941. he was coalman on board one of the destroyers. he fought in both world wars. Thanks for your service papa.

[@scotteakins7203]

RIP Hero's. Your not forgotten. 🇺🇸

[@hankschrader149]

I have been underway aboard ship and manned the rail saluting all the fallen shipmates a very sombering moment, one I will never forget

[@kitdaberserker555]

I work on a sportfishing boat. I always take a moment to respect the sea and the lives within it.

[@terencemckenna3568]

It's amazing how the teak wood is still intact.. I grew up on Oahu and went to Pearl Harbor many many times.. I always thought it would be a great honor to dive on the Arizona and the other areas of the harbor.. Must be a treasure trove of things to see under that water.. God bless those guys.. They were true heroes

[@mjleger4555]

As a SCUBA diver, I thought that also, but I've heard diving on that area is very restricted, and with good reason. I visited twice, once few decades ago, and then again later, and I was in awe of the place, especially remembering what it was all about on 12-7-41. May they all Rest In Peace.

[@TheStuport]

I lived on Hickam AFB on Oahu for 4 years as my Dad was a USAF Officer and pilot. Across the bay from Hickam was Pearl Harbor and we could see The Arizona Memorial from our side of the bay. I went to The Memorial many times on school trips and of course we always took family members from the mainland that came to visit. I'd venture to say that I was on The Memorial close to 10-12 times in 4 years and I'll never forget how quiet it is as well. Bless All

[@saffronsworld1508]

The Stuport... I visited the memorial for the first time in 1976. They had a small boat carry people to the memorial maybe once an hour. There were so few who stopped to visit. Then I went back there in 2012 and WOW!!! There was a HUGE visitors center and hundreds were line up to get on the quite large boat shuttles to visit the memorial. I think that half or more were Japanese tourists. I could scarcely believe how much that great war memorial and national cemetery had become so popular.

[@TheStuport]

Thanks for the reply Tex! My parents went back every year to house sit for a family we were friends with on Oahu who was a big wig with The Diamond Power Company on the Island and they said that the Memorial had grown to huge numbers as well. I remember those small boats taking us out there when I was a kid....Blessed to have seen this up close and personal AND really thrilled others are seeing this tragic yet historic "Cemetery". Salute Tex man

[@saffronsworld1508]

One last comment on the visitor's center as it was when I visited back in 1976. It is trivia, but I recall that in the small room that sold a few souvenirs they also sold the most ungodly wonderful lemon ice cream in the world. To this day I can remember the taste of the smooth flavor of that ice cream. I have never found anything as good since. I would love to return to Oahu and stay in the Marriott at Waikiki Beach with an unbelievable view of Diamond Head like I had so many times when I stayed there on business from 2009 to 2012.. The traffic is murder in Honolulu because of the great increase in population. On my business trips, I would fly into Honolulu and stay all the next day to acclimate to the difference from the Eastern Time Zone in the US Mainland. I used to sit at the statue of Duke Kahanamoku and call my friends and tell them to pull up the webcam of that site and I would wave to them as we talked. How cool is technology these days. When I started out in the world of electronics, the transistor was as big as my thumbnail. Today, they can get tens of thousands of transistors on that same size. Pomaika`i.

[@TheStuport]

The International Market Place sad to say i sno longer around...as a kid me and my siblings really loved to go off the base and see that place...and one of the beach's we loved called Fort Derussey is no longer around.....hotels were built on the beach and walk ways out to the ocean are now there....no worries...i have my memories!! Cheers and TY for the conversation...Mahalo and Aloha

[@jaddy540]

I walked across the abandoned Ford Island Airfield on a visit to Hawaii. Very eerie feeling. Pavement severely broken,weeds growing in the cracks,as Nature recycles it.

[@tonydeleo3642]

When I see those ladders, I can, in my mind, hear the faint echo of general quarters sounding and the feet of those young hero's trying to get to their battle stations.

[@rattmann36863]

I went out on the Arizona when I was in the Air Force, 1973. Looking down into the terret from the observation area, just gives you a strange feeling. You know there are still remains of men such as yourself in side the ship.

[@cdbfullbore]

Doubt there's anything left of any remains. Even the bone is long gone likely. Remains don't last long under water.

[@mr.robinson1982]

When I visited the Arizona Memorial I was moved to tears. It's a great tragedy that should never be forgotten.

[@frankweatherford6848]

"THE GREATEST GENERATION" Has my greatest admiration. Frm my generation, "GEN X"

[@1961Monza900]

My grandfather was stationed at Hickam Airfield when the attack occurred. I wish he was still alive, so I could ask him about that day. (Died in 1986)

[@russfromdodge]

Hallowed Ground...RIP to all those fine men who served on the Arizona

[@357lockdown]

Those poor young men never knew what hit them. They never knew an enemy had attacked them. They probably went down thinking there was an explosion in the fuel holding area, or, in the magazines that held the many tons of weapons and gun powder stored on board. They never knew that they would go down in history with the same love and devotion from their country as the men that died in the Alamo, or the people that died on 9/11. RIP boys.

[@thomasdaniels6824]

I don't know man I hope that was the case but I don't think so.I think they had enough time to realize that they were being attacked which makes everything even worse. But I hope you're right I hope they didn't realize it

[@HopeNazir]

Sadly I am pretty sure they new. The attack was well underway if I remember right when the bombs hit the magazine.

[@lynnyates5973]

Yes unfortunately they knew what was happening..The final bomb that ripped her apart was dropped during the 2nd wave of bombing by the Japanese. The attack was well underway by that time ..Rest in Peace to all the brave people who died for this great country..God bless you all

[@Chazd1949]

I visited the memorial thirty years ago. I recall one Arizona survivor who was a tour volunteer telling the small crowd that there were a few men trapped below who managed to tap out a code and rescuers were able to locate them and get them out. However, other tapping sounds from some other parts of the ship continued for up to two weeks and then there was silence.

[@357lockdown]

@@Chazd1949 How sad that is. That would have been a very slow and agonizing death, let's hope that most of them went quickly.

[@Retro_80s_Guy]

I am surprised and alarmed that there are young people who don't know anything about our country's history. A young lady claiming "her" country would never drop an atomic bomb on Japan or use firebombs. This level of ignorance would be comical if it wasn't so disturbing. And I agree. Before saying something so ignorant, just open up a tab and check first. Jeez, the internet is right at your fingertips so there is no excuse for not knowing something.

[@michellemaher6144]

Australians are the same way. Anglo Saxon exceptionalism is a very dangerous frame of mind.

@@michellemaher6144 shut up. We are exceptional unlike you fruitcakes who refuse to see basic reality

[@sgt.grinch3299]

No better men ever lived. God bless them and the USA.

[@jefferyplummer77]

it's sad to see ALL the reminders of the lost souls that got hit that day. I pray that they can ALL R.I.P.one day.

[@stewballsrbig]

I’m at Ford Island every year on the same spot at 0755hrs where Hangar #1 used to be, (the old PBY hangar) there’s a big one & a half inch thick steel plate that covers the hole where a bomb hit & you can still see shrapnel scars that are in bedded in the concrete, to me this is a special place for me & it’s a hollow ground ... AMEN !

[@jaddy540]

I walked across that Airfield, not long ago, and had a full sense of History.

[@ConwayTruckload]

The USS Arizona was the only ship in the US fleet that had a wood burning fireplace in the captains quarters. I live in Hawaii and done volunteer work on the USS Missouri.

[@saffronsworld1508]

ConwayTruckload....OK, now you went and tickled my jealousy bone. I love Oahu more than any other place on earth. But I could never afford to live there. My wife and I are retired with a combined income of just under $3,000 a month. Buying a house on that Paradise of an island is way out of the question. Thanks for your volunteer service. The biggest hearts in the world belong to volunteers.

[@ConwayTruckload]

Thank you. Yea $3K is about what you would pay for rent or a house payment here. The only reason I am able to afford it here is I got my house before the property values went so high about twenty years ago. But I would not be able to afford moving if I had to do so.

[@jaddy540]

The Arizona never was removed from the rolls of active ships.It still Lives!

[@jeffbarton3353]

ConwayTruckload Wtf? Craziness

[@timacoata7456]

We all need to remember these brave souls and their sacrifice. So many have sacrificed for our country 🇺🇸. So please all you football , basketball fans when those SOB’s take a knee and disrespect our flag 🇺🇸 turn them off. Turn off the damn TV and don’t give them the time of day! God Bless our nation and RIP all that have sacrificed so much.

[@IB2EZ2C]

I was there 2 years ago, and the bubbles are bigger and more frequent than when we went every year in the 70s. What bothered me was the condition of the USS Missouri. The decks are rotting, and she's falling apart. It never looked that poor in Bremerton

[@jhollie8196]

Americans need to visit Arlington National Cemetery and the USS Arizona Memorial and see what our young men and women have sacrificed during their military service. Freedom is not free and we can’t do enough to honor those who have served and are currently standing watch around the world ensuring we sleep under a blanket of freedom each night. Semper Fidelis.

[@lovestory952]

rest in peace us sailors we will rember all of you

[@jimterryh1983]

Thank you all for your service.

[@patrickhanson3938]

our family visited the arizona when i was around 14 yrs old 1978 never will forget that. i never seen so many Japanese people in one place in my life there to visit that sight you should have seen the smiles amazing i never will forget

[@jamesstevens5163]

God bless you heroes very touching

I to was in The Navy. I am humbled. I was a deck seaman on a Mine Sweeper The USS Pinnacle MSO-462! The words you wrote touched my heart. I will go there some day. Again thank you for your words.

[@phlodel]

He may very well have been one who "left it". Come to pay his respects to honored adversaries.

[@99somerville]

Note the oil floating to the surface at 3:40.

[@endurohuntfish8865]

there is still a lot of fuel oil left onboard

[@pauloconnor2980]

Note the wood deck still in place!!!

[@stephanielitton2929]

I think they call those the ships tears

[@xaenon]

@@stephanielitton2929 'Black tears' or the 'Tears of the Arizona', yes.

[@davewilson7674]

Heard it leaks a quart per day

[@burtthebeast4239]

God bless..

[@hovanti]

I couldn't have said it better myself...sometime in my life, I really want to see it. (Ex-Navy CT)

[@lawyers9]

I have visited the USS ARIZONA memorial and was deeply moved by the solemness and respectful attitude of all who were with us. This memorial will give you a new respect for our veterans that our current administration chose to ignore and mistreat.

[@battlemouse1]

No dork, it's not OUR current administration that ignores and mistreats vets, it is today's stupid generation, mostly Dems, that ignore and disrespect vets.

[@lawyers9]

I visited here many years ago. I am still moved seeing these images. We need to honor our veterans both living and deceased!

[@Flagrum3]

It's amazing that there is still wood deck remaining seeing as it is exposed.

[@Flagrum3]

+Robert Curtis -That's a pretty resilient wood.

[@johnkirk5555]

Flagrum3

[@jaddy540]

They used teak.

[@curtskogsbergh9677]

Teak wears rather well !

[@jaddy540]

Re: wooden decks. Prissy captains wanted pretty decks, and had expensive teak laid down. When bombed, thousands of wooden splinters injure and blind the crew.High price for 'pretty 'ships.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

Very poor editing job on the video, but still interesting. I visited the USS Arizona memorial on a trip to Hawaii, and felt a pang in my heart as I read the names of those below. War is always a tragedy, but when you see something like this, which was really before your time, you never forget what a sacrifice our men made for their (our) country that very awful day -- RIP to all.

[@Dark_Ages_Crusader]

🤓

[@noahaldora1374]

i loved the story of the uss arizona it touch my heart

[@larrymanley2800]

Heroes,every one of them

[@DimMakTen]

Crazy to thing that bubble of oil has taken so long to make it to the surface then basically disappears when it gets there.

[@SJKile]

Those 14 inch guns are looking a little sad. Also, a question, how much oil has leaked from the Arizona since December 7th 1941 to November 3rd 2022? Surely there must be a way to calculate it.

[@robertallen8542]

Nice video, glad they didn’t dub in music and ruin it.

[@mikey1829]

Poor guys never even had a chance to defend themselves…I'll leave it at that

[@dmihm7295]

That's why this debt was so tragic and so underhanded. Japanese samurai tradition says it is dishonor to not tell your enemy before a fight. Tradition says, when fighting an enemy you must first show yourself before fighting even if that means you must wake your enemy.

[@ut000bs]

The Japanese got their comeuppance and then some. They lost that war, and their empire, simply by starting it. Much time has passed since with much different.

[@harleyb-ham266]

31 seconds of a black screen to start a video is not good

[@magprob]

I was there in 1974. I have never forgotten the men that died there.

[@mikegross6107]

Words escape me!

[@FV4030]

At least I now know what it would sound like to live in a crisp packet.

[@jessm5558]

Seriously dude?

[@southerncross3638]

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[@thakrak]

I totally agree...

[@Amanda-ns3ks]

I myself reside in Tennessee I'm one of the team of pearl harbor God bless the entire family and love me... lol

[@MrJeep75]

Awesome

[@benjaminlaxton9116]

What would happen if you drained the USS Arizona

[@louisgunn]

R.I.P.

[@thatvacuumgeek]

Rip To the brave people Who died ❤️🇺🇸

[@ryanspennicchia2851]

2230 people died in pearl harbor half more tyan half was on the arizona

[@xxchinookxx]

One day I was visiting the memorial as a U.S.Army soldier when this old Japanese man asked me "Where is the Arizona Memorial?"....I simply told him "RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT IT!" Me being from Phoenix,AZ..I will speak the truth.

[@Dargonkin527]

too bad you left nothing at the Japanese cities you took out with the nukes, all vaporized instantly. Whose truth is harsher huh?!

[@georgestokes5116]

and how did you know he had any thing to do with it

[@1949crewchief]

Wow...I sat staring in silent.

[@Amanda-ns3ks]

Love u josh go Iowa.. it's a thunder storm here ...... now

[@jacobunamuno8176]

@ 1:28 is that the camera light or is that an actual light still lighting the place because it really looks like its coming from the ship idk its intresting

[@tryithere]

+Jacob Unamuno The janitor left the lights on.

[@jacobunamuno8176]

tryithere lol classic, ya seriously not doing his job right

[@joezamgulis8900]

What is the story of the bare deck at 2:03?

[@benjaminlaxton9116]

1:29 what room is that

[@gigiminiotti]

Officers' mess room

[@c123bthunderpig]

The images are indeed haunting, especially for surviving family members. Its a shame these brave men were sacrificed so the USA could enter the war.. At Dawn We Slept, is a better mantra that the day that will live in infamy.

[@thekrazeone]

was wondering just how for into her can they go? do belive it was 1100 died not 1700.still they don't know how much oil is in her tanks and what would be safe way to remove the oil.without risking disator

[@maxwaller2055]

*2:08 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, 1 January 2020*

[@Two_Chins]

Boy were you excited for the absolute shittiest year in recent memory! 6:49 pm est 3rd December 2020.

[@jamesmaranki526]

I was stationed at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base and these Japanese tourists asked me where the Arizona Memorial was, I looked directly at them and pointed toward the Memorial while saying to them " Right there where you left it!!!"

[@gerryhummel1511]

And let me guess , you're probably still under the impression that it was an unprovoked attack.

[@georgestokes5116]

the Japanese of today are not the Japanese of world war 2

[@onrr1726]

what is the glass bottle with the yellow tag in it at 2:50?

[@Mudrat54]

+onrr1726 That is a historical/museum marker on what looks like an early soda bottle (like a Coke or something). Not allowed to remove anything from the site.

[@bigdave46148]

+onrr1726 It is a Coke bottle. The tags are from where the Park Service has gone down and mapped all the objects where they are at, what they are and where they are laying around and on the Arizona. If you pause every time you see a tag, you will see that each one has a number on it.

[@gregmiller5907]

+onrr1726 coke bottle

[@onrr1726]

+Greg Miller ah ok I thought maybe is was an urn or something containing ashes of a former ship mate who wanted to be with his shipmates.

[@bigdave46148]

+onrr1726 When they entomb ashes, they put them inside the ship. I think they use a hatch way that is somewhere on the aft of the ship.

[@Mw3gameboi]

@paul humble please do not take offense to this but your comment saying it was on the verge of being outdated is not correct. The uss Arizona was actually a top notch battleship in her time. The 14 nice turrets on the ships front part were capable of hitting targets up to 20 miles away and was also able to fire a 1,800 pound shell which is also the same weight as the bomb that hit the Foward magazine to cause the sinking of the ship that i see everyday while driving over ford island bridge.

[@jaddy540]

4 turrets, not 14. Typo.

[@SatchmoSings]

Actually the US used quite a number of WW1 vintage battleships in WW2.

[@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN]

There were still a fair amount left in service, 18 pre-1937, 14 post 1944. if you count the two losses at Pearl Harbor (Arizona, and Oklahoma) and two more if you count Utah being converted to a Target trainer ship in 1937 and later sunk during the attack at Pearl Harbor, and Wyoming being converted to a floating Anti-air battery in 1944. But from 1937-1945 the US had commissioned 10 new Battleships, 2 of the North Carolina class, 4 South Dakota class, and 4 Iowa class. 2 more Iowa's were under construction USS Illinois BB-65 and USS Kentucky BB-66 though neither ship would be finished and were broken up as scrap. and a planned successor to the Iowa's the "Montana class" which 5 were planned though construction never started. Just some interesting History lesson below if anyone's interested. The "Oldest" Battleship the Navy operated was USS Utah, until 7, Dec. 1941 when she was sunk. She was originally a Florida class battleship built in 1909, but was "rebuilt" and re-designated as a Target training ship in 1937, being reclassified from BB-31 to AG-16. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the oldest ships in Naval service were the 2 Wyoming class built in 1910 (Wyoming BB-32 which would later go on to have her main guns removed in favor of installing 5 inch guns. And Arkansas BB-33 being the only ship in the Navy's arsenal to still be using 12 inch guns as her main armament. Then you had the 2 New York class built in 1911 (New York BB-34 and her sister Texas BB-35 [Texas being still preserved today] And both ships being the first in the navy to have 14 inch guns.) Then you had 2 Nevada class built in 1912 (Nevada BB-36, and the only battleship to be present at both Pearl Harbor and Operation: Overlord AKA D-Day. And Oklahoma BB-37 the only Battleship to capsize during the attack.) Then you had the 2 Pennsylvania class built in 1912 (Pennsylvania BB-38 and Arizona BB-39) The 3 New Mexico class, built in 1915 ( New Mexico BB-40, Mississippi BB-41, and Idaho BB-42) 2 Tennessee class built in 1916( Tennessee BB-43 and California BB-44) and 3 Colorado class built in 1916 and the first US class of Battleships to carry 16 inch main guns. (Colorado BB-45, Maryland BB-46, and West Virginia BB-48, A 4th was planned Washington BB-47 but was cancelled due to the London Naval Treaty.)

[@Basilzaharoff1]

What are all those items with the yellow tags?

[@andrewbrown7976]

I wonder what became of the men trapped in the watertight compartments. was any attempt made to recover them? what would their bodies condition be?

[@h.db.9684]

Andrew Brown A fair number of men survived the sinkings of these battleships. 32 guys were pulled from the USS Oklahoma after it had sunk. Three other sailors survived the sinking of the USS West Virginia, only to die in its bowels. Endicott, Olds and Costin survived 16 days. Their bodies were found six months later when the ship was raised. Men keeping watch could hear them pounding on the hull to be heard, but no one could do anything except cover their ears.

[@michaelcaldwell4890]

I always think the same thing.

[@dwightturner3070]

On my several trips to Oahu, I have noted that Honolulu and Waikiki are overrun with Japanese tourists. I took the tour of the USS Arizona and at least half of the people on the shuttle boat were Japanese. I was wondering what was going through their minds as they stood in front of the wall that had the names of the American dead inscribed. I read somewhere that Japanese students are no longer taught about the atrocities the Japanese committed during WW2, including the attack at Pearl Harbor. Does anyone know if that is true?

[@davidcovarubias4729]

They probably felt the same way l felt when l visited Peace Park at Hiroshima many years ago. Yes the curiosity feeling is there at first but once you get there at is very somber. You get in a very respectful attitude. I'm sure it is the same for the Japanese tourists that visit the Arizona memorial. Don't blame the people, blame the governments. Governments are the creators of war.

[@Dargonkin527]

Were you taught about the "atrocities" the Americans committed during 2WW? yep that's what I figured....it was war and things need to be done during war, may there never be another one but I am not holding my breath for that to happen....

[@Dr.Pepper001]

@@Dargonkin527 -- Yes, I was in high school in the mid 1960's and in our American History class we were taught about some (obviously not all) of the terrible things our military did in the Civil War, WW1, and WW2. Vietnam had only just started. I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school to go to fight Communism in Vietnam. There were atrocities there, also. My point is that the new generation of Japanese kids are not taught how their country set off on a campaign of world domination and that they killed 9 million people before their war machine was stopped. If people forget about their past they might just repeat it.

[@drjimbomac]

Given that the ship will very soon start to decay and fall apart where it is, I wonder if there are contingency plans when the wreck is little more than parts laying on the bottom of the harbor.

[@TheJer1963]

Jim McNeely There are 500,000 gallons of oil still onboard. They are working on that problem now. Not going to be easy as this is a gravesite.

[@thesparduck117]

+Vernon Slone I don't think 90 year olds could clean up oil.

[@spoonages]

+Vernon Slone I don't think you should be a live creature lol

[@tryithere]

+Vernon Slone I think they like being called Nips.

[@Thneed2003]

+Jim McNeely I believe that there are using an electro charge to slow the decay. Then charge pads of (I believe) zinc and that decays instead of the steel.

[@alohaHeli]

Did anyone take oil samples that’s leaking out of the USS ARIZONA, I’m thinking the military are adding oil for tourists amusement and it’s contaminating the harbor, if the military cared about contaminating environment or anything like this they would put a oil absorbent material around the perimeter to catch it

[@brianchristenson3320]

damn Japan

[@tacitusthehistories5417]

And people don't stand for the flag, don't sing the national anthem or deface but they pull down memorials. Horrible. Shameful. Unpatriotic. God bless the U.S. Navy.

[@ojsefg]

I agree. Though It was a different world back then. A different time and A different country. Run by god fearing, humble patriotic people who had the nations best interest and heart, not their own. Where communities were united by cause and concern. A sense of belonging no matter who’s house you visited, and where everyone would bow their heads and connect at mealtimes. Where you blessed everyone in your prayers before bed. Even people who didn’t deserve it, but needed it. I thank god everyday that I was lucky enough to experience that. And I still pray for the world today and everyone in it that doesn’t deserve it.

[@treystephens6166]

@@ojsefg I heard that FDR was a Closet Communist that’s why he wanted Us to be enemies with Germany & Japan.

[@ethanchandler3110]

Death is never the answer. However War is a sole kind of death. Even if you survive it.

[@sierrapundit]

There were no war games off the coast of Japan in 1941. The US 'provoked' the Japanese attack by refusing to sell it oil for its war machine marching through China.

[@DieJoey]

Who do they tag all the underwater items instead of getting them up?

[@yayawellingbonney2586]

It's disrespectful to disturb their graves. And so that they have an inventory of all of the items

[@DieJoey]

@@yayawellingbonney2586 what do you mean by graves?

[@yayawellingbonney2586]

@@DieJoey the graves of the soldiers who died when the ship was sinking

[@DieJoey]

@@yayawellingbonney2586 They are already disturbing the “graves” by diving there so why not recover the relics and display them in a museum

[@Dargonkin527]

@@yayawellingbonney2586 sailors, they were sailors that died with the ship. Soldiers do their dying on land usually

[@Wombat1916]

Unfortunately, in her time was the 1st World War. What do you mean by "The 14 nice turrets on the ships front part"? The Pennsylvania class had 12 14 inch guns in four turrets, two forward and two aft. Each gun fired a 1,500lb shell out to almost 21 miles.

[@anthonybenson740]

verges

[@AirborneRenegade]

Lights still on in the Arizona

[@niceworkmicrosoft]

+Geoff Jacobs You don't have to dignify that with a response.

[@sharkheadism]

Bianco is an Italian name, moron

[@geoffjacobs1898]

sharkheadism Your Dad's a moron, Whop.

[@sharkheadism]

Geoff Jacobs *wop, moron

[@sharkheadism]

Geoff Jacobs you're welcome

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

the video was more focused on the river than the 2 battleships.

[@djsi38t]

wouldnt no audio be better?The broken scratchy record is kind of annoying.

[@privatespam]

read up on the royal oak ,battleship torpedoed at start of ww2 in scapa flow british naval base, deemed impregnable but entered by german u boat.Hundreds died,oil still escaping and causing large slick across the anchorage,still weeping in more ways than one

[@thenoblegeek]

The Arizona was too badly damaged to be restored to service. They also chose to not salvage the whole ship because of the effort required due to the severe damage.

[@MrHulltech2]

The U.S.S. Arizona is a grave site now the men that are on it will forever be entombed inside her and will never be disturbed , the U.S. Navy did the best thing by leaving her were she lies and building a memorial over her to never forget what happened on that faitfull day on Dec. 7,1941

[@myesenc]

Where do they put the urns of the recently deceased who want to be buried with their shipmates?

[@BigLisaFan]

From what I have seen, they are placed in where the #4 turret was located.

[@Catdaddy77302]

I had a relative on there

[@Amanda-ns3ks]

May 101948 .. made me lose me buddy mr. David . Faq

[@jasonblack499]

What is that at 2:48 ?

[@xaenon]

It looks like a Coke bottle. A sailor on the Arizona was probably enjoying a beverage that morning just before all hell broke loose.

[@josesaavedra250]

alha akbuar!!

[@Pauliebuck]

whats that honeycomb type surface at 3:10?

[@wordsmithgobshite3296]

It looks like the linoleum flooring that they would have in the shower rooms.

[@Pauliebuck]

oh yeah good point

[@fb002a]

Pauliebuck Tiles for the head, galley, barbershop, and any other deck surface that would require frequent cleaning that paint would not hold up to. The same type pf tiles can bee see in several spaces on board BB35 USS Texas, the last surviving dreadnaught in Houston.

[@Pauliebuck]

Christopher Reagh I've been aboard the battleship Massachusetts and the USS Salem. Both of which are South Dakota class battleships I believe and I think I have seen this before but I could be mistaken

[@dundonrl]

USS Salem is a Des Moines class heavy cruiser, with 8" automatic guns, not a battle ship.

[@dondidykes6664]

It looks like they would do something to preserve the ship better

[@maryclevenger5946]

Such as?

[@rattmann36863]

I wonder about the munitions which are still on the ship. Will they blow when the body of the ship falls in on them?

[@1138thz]

No

[@peeblood]

***** I believe, and at this writing have not vetted my knowledge with a quick jaunt to Wikipedia, that at some point the Park Service had a team go down to pump out the majority of the oil and other toxic fluids from the wreck, the result being that some remains and thus a slow trickle to the surface. Bubbles of oil can be seen to this day rising up.

[@MKIVWWI]

Dave839 I did a google check and couldn't find anything that said they'd actually done it yet. I know there's been various proposals to do it for years now, but everything involving the wreck is controversial, so getting a consensus for any action is difficult.

[@1138thz]

***** I don't know hey still find live ammunition all over Europe from WW-I. But Explosives like TNT do degrade over time and become less sensitive even without salt water contamination of the explosive fillers. So I agree there is probably very little danger of a spontaneous detonation.

[@peeblood]

The shells by now have rusted through and the explosive inside deteriorated by seawater. Otherwise I don't think they would have built a memorial on top of it that thousands visit each day.

[@johnny10301968]

1177 men accounted for 50% of the lives lost at Pearl Harbor.

[@lkgrave4959]

I wonder how many USS Arizona Survivors are left.

[@DuucKSauce]

There are 9 survivors left I believe

[@Trek001]

DuucKSauce Make that 8 - I think one died recently

[@user-ly7fx7rx1l]

Make that 1 left , 7 of them just died in rash of illness and lung cancer. The 1 survivor left had just been given medal of honor

[@JakeEditsss]

+lkgrave none :(

[@marilynmanfra9828]

My dad's ship was was next to the Arizona in Battleship row on 7 Dec. 1941, the first day of WWII. The USS Vestal. These sailors were part of the "Greatest Generation" with some only being 17 or 18 years old., from all walks of life and some left great careers behind like Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio and his Brother Red Sox player, Dom DiMaggio along with Ted Williams and many movie stars. These great Americans left their secure homes to make sure we have our freedom or we would be speaking Japanese. My dad died young in 1980 bearing the scars of WWII, never complaining! I have had the honor of meeting one of the last survivors of the USS Arizona, Donald Stratton who also has the scars from the fiery water as he and 6 of the Arizona sailor were saved by a rope from the USS Vestal thrown by Vestal sailor Joe George. Every time I call him he always asked how I am doing and thanks me for my military service. What a great American! Also many Pearl harbor survivors from my dad's ship with one wonderful Sailor, Leroy Peffer who had his cremated remains put with the shipmates of the USS Arizona. The stories go on and on. one thing is for sure, we can not forget this important part of history or history could repeat itself. let us honor these wonderful young men that marks the 1,102 of the Sailor and Marines whuo were killed there. "All gave some and some gave all!"

[@Amanda-ns3ks]

May Josh always say no.. lol

[@csds7679]

We did do that! It is all true and really did happen, read your history book or do some research and you will find it all to be true.

[@Sennmut]

That was on top and inside. NOT underneath.

[@ChriisoX]

Well, your country did. Nagazaki and Hiroshima was the towns in Japan that got ''nuked''. Bremen was indeed bombed. Bremen was untouched until THAT night. A whole town, in one night.

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

I thought all the guns and turrets were salvaged from the arizona leaving only the casemates.

[@stevenfreeman6852]

i have also heard that because of the severe damage, nobody saw turret 1 until long after the removal.

[@RoysFineGems]

They should have raised her!

[@arkwill14]

Why? It was totaled. The front half of the ship would have just fallen apart if they tried. Better to leave it as it lays as a tomb.

[@kasmirabyrd2069]

Thats cool that they tagged the items.. unlike me if I went there I would be like, nope, thats mine.. hahahaha

[@mssedmebich]

Isn't it true tha the Taj-Mahal is a tomb?

[@stevenweaver3386]

mssedmebich yes. It was built for the wife of the maharajah.

[@josephweaver335]

Impressive?...no, we should have salvaged her or at least used parts to build a new Arizona, now it is a grave, people don't usually return from the grave, but the ship could have with a plaque on her....bad decision to honor pearl harbor, by not finding the heroes and returning them home, we have enough memorials.

[@danielschneider2889]

The ship was essentially obliterated....there was no way to raise and return her to service. They scrapped her in place and it wasn't until later that the memorial idea came about

[@thesparduck117]

There was an estimated 97% cremation rate for the dead as a result of the fire. There wasn't much remains to return to bury. As for Battleship Arizona what's there is all that couldn't be moved or wasn't worth the effort to remove said wreckage.

[@danielschneider2889]

The other issue...the fire. Intense heat destroys/changes the properties and strength of the metal, considering the Arizona burned for hours, maybe days in some places, there was really nothing to salvage and re-use, especially anything that was considered to be armored.

[@littlesister3477]

Those were different days back than where salvaging a ship in that situation, though not impossible was more I'd believe a decision made not in haste by more than 1 man, , If im correct there were also quite a few UNOFFICIAL surveys done asking who was for or against and again not official they were pretty much consistant with leaving her as a war grave memorial. Besides the man power and time that were being used to remove and clear the harbor and repairing as many ships as possable to retaliate. Remember , 4 the most part we were without a navy in the area for the moment, quite a few of the ships sunk were actually raised and repaired in a very short amount of tome to actually participate in the war against the Japanese

[@MKIVWWI]

Much of her upperworks were removed during WW2, including her iconic tripod masts. It's a shame they weren't just left in place, as I've always found the old photos of her after the attack especially poignant -- with the forward tripod bent over in the direction of the bow, almost like her head is bowed in sorrow for her lost men. BTW, they did salvage the two stern triple 14" gun turrets, refurbished them, and eventually installed them as Army coastal defense batteries on Oahu. They were called Batteries Arizona and Pennsylvania (after the Arizona's sistership). They did remove the gun barrels from turret 2, but I believe the Navy retained them as spares (most of the turret structure of no. 2 is still in place). If I remember correctly, only Battery Arizona ever became operational, and then, only near the end of the war, when there was no chance of a naval attack on Oahu! Both were declared obsolete and scrapped post-war.