USS Arizona Memorial To Re-Open In March

Above, the USS Arizona Memorial in 2016. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is to be re-opened to visitors in March.

According to the Los Angeles Times:

The USS Arizona Memorial, closed since May because of damage to a loading ramp, is expected to reopen in March. 

The Arizona is part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, which also has sites in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and California’s Tule Lake Unit. 

The battleship sank in 40 feet of water during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on the naval base, killing more than 1,170 crewmen in the bombing and subsequent explosions. More than 330 survived. 

Despite efforts to recover the bodies, more than 900 remained trapped in the ship. Work on the USS Arizona Memorial began in 1960 and was completed in May 1962. 

Until the crack was discovered, visitors were ferried to the memorial and could disembark on the structure that rests atop the ship. Oil still leaks from the sunken ship, bubbling to the surface.

Above, seeping oil rises to the surface of the sunken USS Arizona. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

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