With Honor and Thanks to all our Military, past and present!

7 December, 2011

70th Anniversary

Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor – Oahu, Hawaii

The names of1,177 sailors and marines aboard the USS AZ

“The Alpha” 7 Dec. 1941 USS Arizona Memorial

“Omega” 14 Aug.1945

USS Missouri Battleship

Beginning of WW II

5 torpedo's hit USS Oklahoma –

causes it to capsize

Japanese “Zeros”

0755

USS Shaw explodes during the 2nd wave

Rescue of a Marine in front of the USS W. Virginia

USS Ogala

By 10 am after two waves

The IJN leaves

8 battleships sunk or

destroyed

188 planes destroyed

USS Nevada

USS Pennsylvania

Casualties

  KIA WIA

USA 218 364

USN 2,008 710

USMC 109 69

Civilians 68 35

TOTAL 2,403 1,178

USS Arizona (BB-39)

Total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.

USS Oklahoma (BB-37)

Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.

USS California (BB-44)

Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.

USS West Virginia (BB-48)

Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.

USS Nevada (BB-36)

Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)

Light damage.

USS Maryland (BB-46)

Light damage.

USS Tennessee (BB-43)

Light damage.

USS Utah (AG-16) (former battleship used as a target) -

Sunk.

The cost of FREEDOM is never

cheap or easy to maintain

God Bless America

“All gave some, some gave all”