My great uncle-in-law was one of the men trapped in this ship. His brother was a WW2 vet and a great man, he just passed this month. Hopefully they are together again. RIP
I remember meeting an elderly gentleman on a tour in Hawaii and he told us the story of when he was a boy walking to school on that eventful day. He saw the Japanese planes flying over the island and then turn round to begin the attack. Bless him, he had tears in his eyes..bless them all ..
I dove on the Arizona back in 1965, (I think). We escorted a local news paper reporter down to get some shots for his paper article due on Dec. 7 of that year. It was an interesting dive but had limited visibility. The marine growth was far less and we were not allowed inside. I still have the finished article stored in my garage buried behind some junk. Seeing your article brought back fond memories.
To a beautiful lady of the seas, may you and the brave ones inside rest in peace. The war is long over but we must never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice. To the 900 still inside her may God rest your souls. Thanks to all veterans.
John Schmidt Such a kind, thoughtful comment. I share your sentiment. Thank you for posting. 💕 ~Loving Daughter & GodDaughter of amazing WW2 Veterans, USAAC RIP 💕🙏💕
USS WEST VIRGINIA, sunk at Pearl Harbor 07 December, 1941. Raised, refurbished, and was at the surrender at Tokyo Bay. My dad, Jimmie Frank Glasscock was there having joined the US Navy early 1945 as a 17 year old young man.
My Great Uncle Franklin VanVaulkenburg was Captain of USS ARIZONA. He is still down there. Highly decorated Sailor as well. I dont mind the education. In my opinion..no soul is there. They're in limbo awaiting to be risin on judgement day..as all past dead.
I'm actually pretty bummed about it because the ship is going to leak a decent amount of oil for the next 500 years and all those creatures are exposed to it.
I was there in the early 2000's. I remember still seeing oil coming up out of the ship. It was a very deep experience... There are still many dead down below,& nobody's allowed to make noise in there, other than a whisper. There were many WW11 vets volunteering there but not many left now 🙁
Bonjour c’est un honneur de voir un monument pour ces braves qui ont perdu la vie , nous vous oublions pas pour notre liberté grâce à votre courage , reposez en paix , que dieux vous bénisse France 🇫🇷 merci au USA et nos alliés
Got a chance to see it as a teen back in early 90's. The quietest place in a crowd I've ever been. Made my hair stand up , emotional thnkn of all the lost, and mad all at same time. Amazing how it's still leakn oil too. Thank you to armed forces for continuing to keep us safe
I recently read a book about the attack. Written by a survivor of the USS Arizona explosion. He described the waiting for the bomb to explode second by second, his thoughts and the facts about how much oil, gunpowder, and other munitions were stored below. 7 seconds went by and after those, it blew up three times. The first time was small, the second enough to incinerate men, and the last enough to blow the ship in half, throw hundreds of body parts everywhere (including Ford Island), throw flames onto the USS Vestal (killing men onboard both ships), and incinerate men into nothing but ash. The description of the events was truly horrifying.
Jesus Christ I didn't know the sailors WATCHED the bomb go into the hatch and have to stand there and wait. That and the 3 separate explosions makes it even more grim than it is to me.
Today is December 7th and it makes me sad thinking about it. My teachers great uncle was suppose to be on the ship and before it went off he went to dinner with his friend on a motorcycle. When they were coming back they got in a wreck. My teachers uncle broke his leg and had to go to the hospital while his friend was ok. It wasn't a severe accident. Her uncle heard what happened to the ship and was telling himself he should be dead and he's lucky to be alive and he wishes that he was there with everyone. He's saying that he should've died and he didn't.
I've bin to pearl harbor last september. It was very beautiful to see to remains of the Arizona and the memorial and the people who spoke, who where bin there all those years ago.
It's a dream of mine to be able to see this in person. I am fascinated by the 1940's and the war years. RIP to all those who lost their lives that day and bless the sailors who want to be interred w/ their shipmates❤. Camaraderie and respect at its greatest.
During the end times, during the Great Judgment, the sea will give up the dead who are in it, and Death and Hades will deliverer the dead who were in them. And they will all be judged in front of the Great White Throne. Anyone who is not found in the Book of Life shall be casted in the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:5, 12-15)
My buddies dad was assigned to the Arizona. He was in the brig on shore that morning for being involved in a drunken brawl the night before. He always said he wouldn’t be here if his dad wasn’t a drunken sailer.
It is a war grave and leave them alone no one knows anything except for family that has gone through it leave them alone it deteriorates that's what's going to happen
I have family who served in WWII and who died in the US Japanese Concentration Camps. I'm very disappointed that this National monument is closed. I've bee saving to visit Hawaii and Japan.
Im pretty sure it was 1177 men died on the Arizona alone, almost a thousand more died abord the other ships and at the airfields, including 49 civilians hit by stray bullets.
How much of the things like boots, cups even a coke bottle were actually not from the Arizona but from the work barges when they were stripping her for salvageable parts. Also work was still being done in 1945 to remove exposed wreckage .
not a chance. with the high salt levels and calcium in the water. not to mention what aqua live fed on them. they would of dissolved (including bone) in about 5 years. statistics tho. in reality who knows.
jaddy540 the aft main gun turrets were removed and installed as artillery defense on the island of Oahu at kahe point and where the current marine base is now. The guns from turret 2 were salvaged and installed on the battleship Nevada. The Nevada participated in bombardments on Okinawa and Iwo Jima, firing Arizona’s guns.
I thought all the barrels had been removed also, odd you cant see them in Ariel photos of the memorial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)#/media/File:USS_Arizona_Memorial_(aerial_view).jpg
@@olddays2253 that had no consideration in the months after the Pearl Harbor attack. If she had parts that could have benefited to the war effort the Navy was pulling them with little question. I suspect they didn’t pull the number 1 turret or even the guns is given the explosion likely wrecked both rendering recovery/salvage a wasted effort so they just left them.
Divers go inside practically every other wreck there is. 1,517 people died (roughly 400 more than on the USS Arizona) on the RMS Titanic, but people still go freely in and around her wreck. I think it's a bad choice in the long-run not to excavate and explore the Arizona's present condition on the inside if you guys really want to keep the thing in your harbour. Like, it's still spewing out oil and fuel. Perhaps something should be done about that? I don't know, I'm not an american.
the difference between titanic and arizona is simple that anyone with common sense would know this which you lack.. titanic WAS a PUBLIC ship so no restrictions really but its also 15k below sea level.. arizona IS n will still be a NAVY ship and unless the navy outright says people can go inside.. the navy has juristiction to it. just like uss iowa the navy has her as a memorial ship but could easily tak her back n reinstateh er for active duty after a retro fit.. so until the navy gives away the ship like uss texas to the state of arizona(which it will never do) navy says no one allowed in.. no one goes in..
Yeah, it's the navy's property. But the navy can't suddenly start using the Arizona for war efforts, like they could do with the Iowa. Arizona serves no purpose other than being a cemetary - a environmentally dangerous one. The point I was trying to make is that as far as I knew when writing that comment one month ago, the only restriction I knew of was the fact that a lot of people had died there. Lots of people have died in other wrecks too, many times with far more casualties than during the sinking of the Arizona. But as you argue for the fact that only the navy is in the way of looking for methods of preservation or containment of the dangerous chemicals leaking from it's hull, I wonder why the navy doesn't do anything about it? There's a universal denial of the global warming in the U.S. of A., I know, but why doesn't the navy even consider the possibilities?
its lower decks are all submerged below the sealevel.. where all the oil remaining is store navy known about it since it sank.. the best they can do is collect it as it surfaces n when it surfaces because there is nothign they can do without disturbing the war cemetary its not about glboal warming never has been.. also arizona was to never sail again it was that far gone alot of the ships sunk during perl harbor were repurposed for other ships using theiir scrap to repair other ships arizona is one ofthose ships that was sunk unable to be salvaged or brought up n repaired it was that bad compared to others..
The national parks service has been monitoring the oil spillage and it has not had any large effects on the ecosystem and the most of the oil is a thin film on the surface and there isn't any effective way to get that off. It leaks about 2 pints a day so spewing doesn't have the right meaning. (sorry I am being picky) over 1100 people died in the ship where in other shipwrecks they died in the water like titanic. The ship is considered a cemetery so disrupting the actual ship the way they would need to in order to clean up would be like digging up a grave. If a grave is over a hundred years old is different from when it is less than 100 years old.
Everyone has different opinions and yours is a good one as may others...very interesting but common view and yours as everyone elses is worth hearing. Its just too bad you had to act like a childish expert on the subject and most of all be a dink about it!!!
The story of Pearl Harbor always moved me deep. But I never understood why treating the ship as a grave instead of taking the remains. The ship is the place those poor men suffered and die, I would think there is peace to be found elsewhere?
Maritime tradition to get buried at sea, especially during war time when ships may not have the facilities or resources to store the body or fly it to shore
when the ship went down it was nearly impossible to recover the bodies mainly because of how dismembered they were or burnt up, they also didnt have the diving equipment and ID for the body recovery. They decided to make a it a war grave since it was nearly impossible to recover over 1,100+ people on board
@@froot6086 True. During the recovery of the other ships the smell, they did had to remove all the remains. It clearing out the ships was a horrible mess of damaged equipment, debris and an horrific smell of decaying foodstuffs mixed with the the unfortunate casualties that where not able to evacuate the ships. The youtube channel Drachinifel has an amazing three episode long series on the recovery of the Pearl Harbor ships.
What are you talking about? Did you search on this before asking? Divers have been regularly inspecting the ship since 1942. The ship was hit by a 1,760-pound projectile. The entire front portion was destroyed and the fires burned everything in its path, cremating 1177 men. The fires continued for 2½ days. Proper inspection didn't take place for a few months (remember we were now at war, manpower and resources were scarce). Inspection discovered that access to the front portion of the ship was completely blocked by debris and great sheets of metal grotesquely twisted there made a very unsafe environment. The second deck had collapsed and virtually melted into the lower decks. Some bodies were recovered, but 900 could not be. The ship is their final resting place and is designated as a military gravesite. Of the bodies they were able to get out, 107 were identified. The rest were severely dismembered or partially cremated, making identification impossible (no DNA testing in 1941), so they were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific as unknowns. Also the surviving Arizona crewmen are given the option of being interred in the sunken battleship. Many of them have chosen to have their ashes spread over the site or have their urn lowered into the ship when they die so they can return to their ship and their brothers. I was stationed on Hickam AFB twice in my career and have visited the memorial several times. It's a very moving experience. There is a wall with the names of the sailors engraved on it there. The memorial is free to the public.
Some bodies were recovered but it was determined given the severe damage near the bow section, as well as the diving suits, the risk to divers was too great and the decision was reached to leave the remaining crew inside the ship.
There is a after action report by the Navy written after the war, it tells of all the salvage work. It is a excellent book, and shows the turning over of the Oklahoma, and the salvage and recovery work done on the Arizona. They built a cofferdam around her, and men went inside of her to do recovery and salvage work. It does not speak to it, but I am sure many had nightmares for years.@@therealtracyduh
Emocionante !!! Ojala algún día encuentre el Crucero Gral Belgrano ex Phoenix hundido en la guerra de Malvinas . Exciting !!! Hopefully one day I will find the Crucero Gral Belgrano ex Phoenix sunk in the Falklands War.
There is a belief among sailors, that the oil will stop leaking once the last survivor of the ship passes away. Not sure how many are left though, sadly gets fewer each year.
@@walkercordell3030 there's still 2 survivors left actually (both 98 years old), not everyone on the ship died that day, some were able to make it out alive.
