Monday, December 9, 2013

USS Arizona: Cost of war hidden at Pearl Harbor


statesmanjournal.com  ... "As the visitor peers into the water on either side of the memorial, the Arizona, with its superstructure long gone, starts to take shape. There’s the mount for one of its giant guns; oil still rises slowly to the surface from the ship’s fuel bunker, which has been leaking for 72 years.

"Hidden in the depths of the hull are the bunks, the ammunition magazines, the offices, the shops and the chow line; the narrow passageways, the steep ladders, the hatches and watertight doors that never had a chance to do their job — all those places that are so familiar to every sailor — and a thousand men entombed in the ship that was their home, their workplace and their pride.

 USS Arizona (Inside the Wreck!!)


 
 

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