#Pearl harbor remembrance day 2015 video for free

#Pearl harbor remembrance day 2015 video for free

To visit the USS Oklahoma Memorial, if you do not have a valid active duty military ID, you can visit for free via the battleship Missouri shuttle, located near the entrance to the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum. The USS Oklahoma and USS Utah memorials are located on Ford Island, an active naval base.

Navy battleships (the USS Arizona and the USS Utah), the attack also destroyed 188 aircraft.

In addition to the ships and boats and two U.S. 7, Pearl Harbor survivors, veterans and visitors from all over the world come together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed, and the 1,178 who were injured, during the attack. The Navy stipulated that the memorial was supposed to resemble a bridge, handle as many as 200 people, and not touch the Arizona herself.Įach year on Dec. He described his design as, “Wherein the structure sags in the center but stands strong and vigorous at the ends, expresses initial defeat and ultimate victory.” internment camp in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona Memorial is visited by more than a million people annually.Īlfred Preis, who designed it, was born in Austria and was sent to a U.S. If a loved one died in the attack, you can find his name and honor him there. Parks Service, opened to the public in 1962Ī shrine lists the names of all the crewmen who lost their lives in the Pearl Harbor attack. The 184-foot memorial structure spans the middle portion of the sunken battleship. In all, 19 Navy ships were damaged or sunk. 7, 1941 - nearly half of the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed. The USS Arizona is the final resting place for 1,102 of the ship’s 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on Dec. They’ve become points of remembrance, not only of personnel and lost ships but also for the entire attack. Some enshrined relics of war remain at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu. PST, through the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, at Maritime memorials There is a live stream scheduled Dec 7, from 9:40 a.m. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony honors the legacy of the Soldiers, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, Sailors and civilians who defended America in World War II, from the opening battle of Decemuntil peace was secured on Sept.