You can read a brief history here: USS Arizona: Before Pearl Harbor, the mightiest ship at sea.
From War History Online, this article has some amazing pictures of the USS Arizona from construction through Pearl Harbor attack. Here is a sample ~
Last December 7th, four of the nine remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack gathered to honor their shipmates..
Left to right, Donald Stratton, Louis Conter, John Anderson, and Lauren Bruner. The four Pearl Harbor survivors announced this year's USS Arizona Reunion Association ceremony to be the final of its kind.
God Bless those that remain of the Greatest Generation.
Semi-related: 200 years ago: The Battle of Waterloo.
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