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USS Arizona (BB-39) is a Pennsylvania-class battleship launched in 1915 and sunk by Japanese bombers in the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. Arizona has been the name of three ships of the United States Navy and will be the name of a future submarine. USS Arizona (1858), laid down in 1858 and served in the American Civil War.
USS Arizona was a standard-type battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class. After being commissioned in 1916, Arizona remained stateside during World War I but escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the subsequent Paris Peace Conference.
Pages in category "World War II battleships of the United States" ... USS Alabama (BB-60) USS Arizona; USS Arkansas (BB-33) B. Battleship Row; C. USS California (BB-44)
Pages in category "World War II naval ships of the United States" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Damaged, struck by 2 bombs and adjacent to Arizona during explosions, repaired self and a Pearl Harbor moored port side to the port side of the Arizona at F-7 Rigel: AR-11 Minor damage from bomb near-misses moored in berth B-13, Navy Yard, unarmed and undergoing major repairs and conversion, forward of Ramapo: Pelias: AS-14 Undamaged
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
USS Arizona and museum (center left) and the Admiral Clarey Bridge. A one-hour audio tour of the Memorial and Center exhibits, narrated by actress Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father, Tony Curtis was a World War II and Navy veteran, is available for rent at the visitor center. On the center's grounds along the shoreline are more exhibits and a ...