Thursday, June 12, 2008

USS Arizona Memorial

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It is a resting place to remembering 1177 sailors who died during in World War II, location in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It was finally open for public at 30 May 1962 (Memorial Day).

Back of this postcard said :
....enshrines this famous battleship sunk by the Japanese, December 7, 1941. The structure is an enclosed bridge transversely spanning the hull which is resting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The end wall of the Memorial is in inscribed with the names of the 1.177 men who lost their lives when the ship went down.

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