From Wikipedia
The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 Dec 1942, and the wreck cut down so that little remained above the waterline. Personally, I think they should have left that forward mast pitched over like it was.
The aft main battery turrets and guns were removed and the cannons from #2 removed, but both forward turrets remain in place.
Turrets #3 and #4 (the aft turrets) became the US Army Coast Artillery Corps battery Arizona on the west coast of Oahu and Battery Pennsylvania on Mokapu Point.
The #2 turret guns were later installed on the USS Nevada in the fall of 1944 and fired on the Japanese-he;d islands of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Contrary to popular belief, the USS Arizona is not in perpetual commission like the USS Constitution.
I always thought that someone should write a book about the cleanup of Pearl Harbor after the attack.
At Least the Arizona Got a Little Payback. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
No comments:
Post a Comment