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USS Arizona "Operation 85" is a civilian lead initiative aimed at identifying 85 or more unknown American servicemen from the battleship USS Arizona which were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, who are interred in commingled graves and marked as "unknown" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, or Punchbowl Cemetery, located 10 miles (16 km) away from the location of the wreck of ...
USS Arizona was a standard-type battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state , she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class . After being commissioned in 1916, Arizona remained stateside during World War I but escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the subsequent Paris Peace Conference .
USS Arizona sinking and burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 USS Arizona in the 1950s. During and following the end of World War II, Arizona ' s wrecked superstructure was removed and efforts began to erect a memorial at the remaining submerged hull. Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame, visited Pearl Harbor ...
U.S. Navy veteran Louis Conter, the last surviving crew member from the battleship USS Arizona, which was destroyed by Japanese warplanes in the attack on Pearl Harbor more than eight decades ago ...
The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. The battleship’s dead account Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl ...
Damaged, struck by 2 bombs and adjacent to Arizona during explosions, repaired self and a Pearl Harbor moored port side to the port side of the Arizona at F-7 Rigel: AR-11 Minor damage from bomb near-misses moored in berth B-13, Navy Yard, unarmed and undergoing major repairs and conversion, forward of Ramapo: Pelias: AS-14 Undamaged
Lou Conter, the final survivor of the USS Arizona, the Navy battleship that was sunk – with a loss of 1,177 lives – during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at age 102.
In April 1995, during working group sessions, the U.S. side passed over the deck logs of the USS Bennington from 1 July 1964 to 31 July 1964, the deck log of the USS Cunningham from 14 July 1964 to 16 July 1964 and the deck log of the USS Eversole from 14 July 1964 to 16 July 1964. These deck logs all pertain to the crash of the "Badger".