The U.S.S. Arizona BB-39
The first photograph Americans saw of Arizona in the Pearl Harbor attack
Sailor’s scrapbook, recovered from the wreck
Crew, 1924
Heavy seas, off the California coast, mid 1930s
Recovered “letterman’s sweater”
1931: Underway during President Hoover’s visit
Sheen from oil, still leaking from the wreck
Binoculars with lanyard, recovered from the wreck
Recovered service cap
Ship’s band, Nov. 22, 1941… …All of these men were killed on December 7
One of the Arizona’s bandsmen, Jack Leo Scruggs, went to Arroyo Grande High Scruggs and two other bandsmen were preparing to play the National Anthem when a Japanese bomb blew them off the ship and into the water. Scruggs probably drowned.
Flag recovered from a crew member’s body
14-inch guns from Arizona’s sister ship, Pennsylvania
Arizona’s #1 gun turret is still intact
The attack begins: Taken from a Japanese airplane about 7:55 a.m.
“Battleship Row:” Arizona is not hit yet; Oklahoma is beginning to capsize
“Battleship Row”—oil flooding out of West Virginia and Oklahoma
Destroyer Shaw exploding
Two bombs on Arizona’s stern about 8:05; this is the moment when Jack Scruggs dies
The fatal bomb: Arizona is hit forward, moments later
This clock was in the cabin of Arizona’s chaplain
It took three days for the fire to burn itself out
“ Battleship Row” three days after the attack; note the Oklahoma and Arizona
Burial ashore: Most of the Arizona dead remain aboard
Arizona today
A scale model of the memorial and the wreck
“Last Mooring,” Arizona in her last berth, Pearl Harbor, December 5, 1941
Beneath Pearl Harbor today
The air trapped in the upper half of this porthole is from December 7, 1941
The impact December 7 would have on the South County would be devastating
From a book by John Loomis and Gordon Bennett: AGUHS before the War
And this is the Letterman’s Club By the following year, a third of these AG Eagles would be in internment camps for Japanese-Americans I grew up here, and I don’t recognize some of these names; those families never came back The coach in this photograph would be killed in the Pacific in 1943