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.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
The USS Arizona and Two Other Pearl Harbor Museums Close Due to the Virus
From the March 17, 2020, Honolulu Star-Advertiser "USS Arizona, three other Pearl Harbor museums closing due to coronovirus worries" by William Cole.
Along with the Arizona, which gets 4,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, the USS Bowfin (Submarine) Museum and Park is now closed.
The Battleship Missouri Memorial has also closed.
The fourth museum in Pearl Harbor, the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, is also closing.
This has been an especially rough time for the Arizona Museum Memorial after falling attendance and revenue resulting from the 15-month shutdown of onsite visits to the memorial from 2018-1019 because of problems at the pier by the sunken battleship.
A total of 1,177 men lost their lives when the USS Arizona blew up which still ranks as the U.S. Navy's biggest loss in a single action.
In 2019, nearly 1,8 million people visited the Pearl Harbor site.
--GreGen
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