USS Arizona (BB-39)🇺🇸On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Arizona was moored in Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft attacked. A single armor-piercing bomb struck near the forward gun turret, igniting the ship’s forward ammunition magazine in a catastrophic explosion. The ship sank in just nine minutes, with 1,177 of her crew lost—the single greatest loss of life on any U.S. warship in history. Today, the wreck remains a sacred site. Over 900 sailors and Marines are still entombed within the