Pearl Harbor Survivors Share Their Story | Into The Arizona | War Stories

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Over 75 years ago, 1,177 men lost their lives on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship, underwater, is a shrine and monument, visited by tourists, and the families of those who perished.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:12 HH Promo
00:05:48 Part One
00:49:17 Part Two

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  4. After what they did to the Chinese and this I do not think 2 was a enough!! I wish they could have put one right in the Emperor’s Palace!!! I thank your father for his service, they were and are The Greatest Gen!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇱🇺🇦🇺 I forgot The Bataan Death March as well!

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  11. US aircraft at Pearl Harbor would be USAAF P-40 Pursuit ships (propeller driven aircraft) and not fighter jets which no one had in 1941. The British had used a modified fin design in November 1940 attack on the Italian Naval Base at Taranto Italy. Taranto has a similar harbor profile. In 1932, Ernest J King, the future Chief of Naval Operations, is given the role of attacking force commander in the Fleet Problem that year, target: Pearl Harbor and the US "Fleet", he launches a mock air attack on Pearl and is judged to have sunk most of the opposing force (US Fleet). In 1934, King is once again playing the attacking force commander and is again given the task of attacking Pearl Harbor and the US Fleet, and again he uses the air attack, "sinking" most of the opposing force.

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  14. I am 83 years old. I just don't like the idea of entering the ship. It's too much like taking a sharp stick and poking around in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
    I knew at least one man who was stationed in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. In all the confusion,, they couldn't find their C.O. So they broke into the arms locker and armed themselves.
    He told me that by by morning, there was not a cow or pig left alive on the Island.'He said
    that when they heard something moving in the brush, the soldier would yell Halt! and not receiving a reply instantly just fired until the moving stopped.

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  15. I had an uncle that was on the USS Arizona. He reported to the Arizona at 6AM on Dec.7, 1941. He was on the top deck when the first bomb hit the Arizona. It knocked several sailors off the Arizona into the water. That is why my uncle did not go down with the ship, Arizona.

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  21. Pearl Harbor Japanese raider pushed USA 🇺🇸 populations emotionally into WW2 angered 😠 as US authors desired … because the financial benefits of US main companies were more interesting and beneficiary than the US remained neutral officially… While Japanese authors arrogantly thought that its navigation strength 💪 has capabilities to ejecting US dominate on Pacific Ocean !!!!…

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  24. Some things to add,

    As of writing this post, only two men remain that survived the Arizona, Lou Conter and Ken Potts. Both men are over 100 years old. Donald Stratton passed away on 15 February 2020.

    Thirty-eight sets of brothers, including two sets of three brothers, served on the Arizona. Of those seventy-nine men, sixty-three were killed.

    Attempts were made to recover bodies of the Arizona. They succeeded in recovering about 75 bodies. Most of the crew were incinerated by the fires that lasted for two days. The Arizona's captain, Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, and Battleship Division One commander, Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd, were last seen on the battleship's bridge directing the fight when the ship blew up. All that was ever found of them was their Annapolis class rings. The fire melted the gold and fused it with the steel bulkhead. Because they were never found, both men are still declared Missing-in-Action.

    @40:08 the ship in the center distance is the USS Nevada having beached at Hospital Point during its failed sortie. The flashes coming from it are from her anti-aircraft guns. The Nevada became a focal point in her dash by many Japanese planes. The ship in the foreground left is the minelayer USS Oglala (CM-4). Originally the Oglala was moore outbound of the cruiser USS Helena. A Japanese torpedo passed under the Oglala and exploded against the hull of the cruiser. The concussion of the blast ripped open the Oglala at her seems causing rapid flooding. The ship was moored with her generators offline. All her power was coming from shore. Thus she was unable to get her pumps going. In a short time the Oglala rolled over and sank. Surprisingly, none of her crew were killed, and she was put back into action, earning two battle stars; one for the defense of Pearl Harbor and the other for the liberation of the Philippines.

    @53:09, passing the Arizona, if you pause it you can see the 5" AA guns still trained towards the sky. Salvage crews later found the deck strewn with spent shell casings. Proof the Arizona went down fighting.

    The footage of the Arizona's destruction, arguably the most used footage of the Pearl Harbor attack, was taken by Army doctor Eric Haakenson from the deck of the USS Solace (AH-5).

    Of the ships sunk or destroyed at Pearl Harbor, all but three were put back into service; the exceptions were; the target ship USS Utah that capsized on the opposite side of Ford Island from the Arizona. Her hulk remains there to this day with a small memorial to the men who died on board her. The capsized USS Oklahoma was eventually righted but written off as a total loss. Her weapons and equipment were salvaged along with the remains of around 400 of her crew, most of whom were buried as unknowns. With the advancements in DNA technology, almost all of those remains have been positively identified as of 2022. The hull of the Oklahoma was towed back to the States when she sank in a storm. The last was the Arizona.

    Wreckage salvaged from the Arizona has been scattered around the country. Her potato locker sits Parts of her superstructure, Silver Service set, and her colors are at the Arizona Capital Building in Phoenix. Part of her superstructure sits in the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Hospital in Phoenix. The remains of her potato locker are used as a memorial marker at the Glendale Veteran's Memorial in Glendale, Arizona. The signal mast, anchor, one of her guns sit at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza. A piece of her superstructure sits at the USS South Dakota Memorial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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