Photos: Pearl Harbor attack commemoration at USS Arizona Mall Memorial
The 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is commemorated at the USS Arizona Mall Memorial on the University of Arizona Mall on Dec. 7, 2017.
The USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship commissioned in the United State Navy in 1916. She went through an extensive modernization in 1929, with new deck armor, boilers, turbines, guns and fire-control. During the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, a bomb detonated a powder magazine in the Arizona and the battleship exploded violently and sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. The U.S. made a formal declaration of war against Japan and subsequently all Axis powers. The wreck still rests at the bottom of the harbor and is now part of the USS Arizona Memorial.
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A Navy ROTC honor guard stands at attention during a commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017.
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The medallion for James Randolph Van Horn, on the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017. honors the seventeen-year-old Tucson High School student who was the one Tucsonan who died aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He was one of eight Arizonans who died among the 1,177 aboard the USS Arizona battleship. All of the names are inscribed on individual medallions as part of the USS Arizona Mall Memorial.
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USMC Col. Pat rick L. Wall addresses the members of the Naval ROTC following a ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017. He talked about the importance of honoring the sacrifice of those who served before them.
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Navy ROTC midshipman stand at parade rest during a commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017.
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A Navy ROTC honor guard stands at attention during a commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017. At right, USMC Col. Pat rick L. Wall reads the names of the eight Arizonans killed that day on the USS Arizona.
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Shadows of Navy ROTC personnel grace the wall of the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017. following a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the attack.
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Members of the public attend a commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor memorial on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. on December 7, 2017.
USS Arizona life ring among museum's Pearl Harbor artifacts
UpdatedNATICK, Mass. — A World War II museum in Massachusetts is displaying artifacts commemorating the Pearl Harbor attack ahead of the Dec. 7 anniversary.
The International Museum of World War II says it recently acquired a life ring from the USS Arizona.
The battleship was among those destroyed in the surprise attack by Japan on the U.S naval base in Hawaii that prompted the U.S. to enter the war in 1941.
The ship's sunken remains are now a national memorial.
The museum, located in the Boston suburb of Natick, also displays many other artifacts related to the attack.
Among them is Japan's formal declaration of war against the U.S., pieces of Japanese planes shot down at Pearl Harbor and women's panties that read: "Remember Pearl Harbor, Don't Get Caught with Your Pants Down."
