Category Archives: Battleships of Pearl Harbor

The USS Arizona Memorial Tours

If you are in Hawaii, then make sure you go on the Best Pearl Harbor Tours. A commercial transportation company in Waikiki runs round-trip bus service to the visitor center. You will get the chance to see the 184-foot-long USS Arizona Memorial. The structure spanning the mid-portion of the sunken battleship consists of three main […]

The Battleships of Pearl Harbor

Sunday, December 7, 1941 was a beautiful morning on the Hawaiian island of Oahu until suddenly Japanese Forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Eighteen months earlier Franklin D. Roosevelt as a deterrent transferred the United States Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor. After the attack, a good number of the battleships were salvaged and repaired which allowed for […]