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I have struggled to try to understand what this is a photo off.
Can we have an explication please.
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David,
It is a most poignant reminder of a terrible time in our world's history.
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
It is a most poignant reminder of a terrible time in our world's history.
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
That is the USS Arizona Memorial. It was a ship that was destroyed in World War II by the Japanese. It still has it's crew on board. It is a national monument. I visited it myself about 25 years ago. The white building is a viewing area with the names on those buried on board. Those hexagon shaped structures are over the harbor and they represent where ships were when they were destroyed.
What the Arizona looked like before.
And after.
And after.
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This is what the USS Arizona originally looked like when she was launched in 1916. (She's leaving Brooklyn Navy Yard after a visit to NYC in this picture). She was renovated in the late 1920s & again I think in the mid 1930s
That information would not be found on the wikiarticle but, then, you didn't say either where are they now... around the Arizona in deeper water?
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The Memorial is also an official US Navy graveyard. Many survivors of the attack have been cremated and their ashes interred in the ship, placed by Navy divers. Some of the few remaining survivors intend to be interred there as well.
When I visited, we were fortunate to witness a ceremony that began with US Navy vessels but has been adopted also by allied naval vessels as they enter the harbor. As they pass by the memorial, all non-critical personnel line the ships' railings and deck edges, standing in silent salute to not just the men who died on the Arizona, but all who were killed in the sneak attack. We weren't really close, but it was still impressive, and impressively solemn.
Also while I was there, a bubble of oil burbled to the surface, from the Arizona. There's still a lot of oil in the ship, and the Navy has people monitoring escaping oil. Usually there's an oil slick, sometimes there are bubbles of the stuff; when the latter happens, they go on alert in case one of the deteriorating oil tanks has broken clear open at last. Schemes have been proposed for pumping the oil out, but the consensus has been to not disturb the site and more than necessary.
When I visited, we were fortunate to witness a ceremony that began with US Navy vessels but has been adopted also by allied naval vessels as they enter the harbor. As they pass by the memorial, all non-critical personnel line the ships' railings and deck edges, standing in silent salute to not just the men who died on the Arizona, but all who were killed in the sneak attack. We weren't really close, but it was still impressive, and impressively solemn.
Also while I was there, a bubble of oil burbled to the surface, from the Arizona. There's still a lot of oil in the ship, and the Navy has people monitoring escaping oil. Usually there's an oil slick, sometimes there are bubbles of the stuff; when the latter happens, they go on alert in case one of the deteriorating oil tanks has broken clear open at last. Schemes have been proposed for pumping the oil out, but the consensus has been to not disturb the site and more than necessary.
The markers are all inside Pearl Harbor. Here are a few of the ships markers.
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The USS Missouri Memorial is nearby:
No other battleship served in as many wars as the "Mighty Mo". She was one of the most powerful battleships in World War II and the most powerful in Korea, Vietnam, and Operation Desert Storm. A friend who was a Marine chaplain in Vietnam related to me a story when the captain of his unit needed air support badly: the Air Force had nothing close, and the carriers were unable to send planes. But an alert Navy officer asked what the support was for; the captain said Viet Cong were dug in on a nearby hilltop, pinning his company down and preventing it from moving up to support another, and they needed the hilltop neutralized. The Navy officer asked for the hill's coordinates, then told him to hang on. In a couple of minutes the radio crackled with the Navy officer telling the captain they should all hit the ground. Moments later, horrid sounds ripped through the atmosphere -- a ripping sound like plywood being torn apart, with a scream like someone being torn limb from limb and a screech like train cars being shredded apart in a wreck. Then they felt the impacts: Whump! Whump! Whump! Whump!
The Navy officer called and asked if the hill was neutralized. Getting up to look, the captain swore: "The whole damned hill is 'neutralized' -- it's gone!" The "Mighty Mo" had launched a full salvo from its forward batteries, six shells each the size of a Volkswagon bug, filled with high explosives much more potent than the original ammunition for the battleship. They'd come in from far over the horizon: the ship couldn't even see the coast at the time, not from the deck anyway, but the refit before committing her to the war had bestowed the capacity to hit targets she couldn't see, so long as they had the target coordinates.
The Missouri monument at Pearl was placed carefully so the two, it and the Arizona, don't interfere with each other. I didn't get to see it when I was there, because it hadn't arrived yet. But I did get the chance to explore it when it docked in Astoria, Oregon for several days as the vessel was prepared for its journey, towed by powerful tugs, across the Pacific one last time to Hawaii and its final station.
I don't know if they're still a possibility, but there used to be contingency plans to re-commission her again, for a simple reason: with the upgrades, and with cruise missile capacity reinstalled, the USS Missouri by herself is more powerful than many of the world's navies. The big reason she may never be recommissioned is that her WW II era armor isn't sufficient to withstand even one hit from modern anti-ship missiles.
Firing at Iraqi land forces in Kuwait
Full broadside with main batteries.
Viewed across the Arizona Memorial.
No other battleship served in as many wars as the "Mighty Mo". She was one of the most powerful battleships in World War II and the most powerful in Korea, Vietnam, and Operation Desert Storm. A friend who was a Marine chaplain in Vietnam related to me a story when the captain of his unit needed air support badly: the Air Force had nothing close, and the carriers were unable to send planes. But an alert Navy officer asked what the support was for; the captain said Viet Cong were dug in on a nearby hilltop, pinning his company down and preventing it from moving up to support another, and they needed the hilltop neutralized. The Navy officer asked for the hill's coordinates, then told him to hang on. In a couple of minutes the radio crackled with the Navy officer telling the captain they should all hit the ground. Moments later, horrid sounds ripped through the atmosphere -- a ripping sound like plywood being torn apart, with a scream like someone being torn limb from limb and a screech like train cars being shredded apart in a wreck. Then they felt the impacts: Whump! Whump! Whump! Whump!
The Navy officer called and asked if the hill was neutralized. Getting up to look, the captain swore: "The whole damned hill is 'neutralized' -- it's gone!" The "Mighty Mo" had launched a full salvo from its forward batteries, six shells each the size of a Volkswagon bug, filled with high explosives much more potent than the original ammunition for the battleship. They'd come in from far over the horizon: the ship couldn't even see the coast at the time, not from the deck anyway, but the refit before committing her to the war had bestowed the capacity to hit targets she couldn't see, so long as they had the target coordinates.
The Missouri monument at Pearl was placed carefully so the two, it and the Arizona, don't interfere with each other. I didn't get to see it when I was there, because it hadn't arrived yet. But I did get the chance to explore it when it docked in Astoria, Oregon for several days as the vessel was prepared for its journey, towed by powerful tugs, across the Pacific one last time to Hawaii and its final station.
I don't know if they're still a possibility, but there used to be contingency plans to re-commission her again, for a simple reason: with the upgrades, and with cruise missile capacity reinstalled, the USS Missouri by herself is more powerful than many of the world's navies. The big reason she may never be recommissioned is that her WW II era armor isn't sufficient to withstand even one hit from modern anti-ship missiles.
Firing at Iraqi land forces in Kuwait
Full broadside with main batteries.
Viewed across the Arizona Memorial.
Also wanted to mention that the ships have been removed except the Arizona.
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the Stepped Stone Structure in the City of David
