Peal Harbor

On Wednesday of our trip we toured Pearl Harbor. This was a very neat and educational tour. We arrived around noon and got our tickets, but our tour wasn't until 2:45 that afternoon, so we had plenty of time to tour the museums and learn all about what took place that December morning in 1941.

When it was time for our tour, we watched a 20-minute video on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and then boarded a boat that took us out to the U.S.S. Arizona memorial (the long white building in the picture below). The memorial is actually built over the U.S.S. Arizona, and to this day oil is still leaking out of the ship. That fact was very interesting to us. The U.S.S. Arizona and 1,177 of her crew were among the first casualties of  the Pacific War.

Looking out at the memorial.

Two-person submarine used in the war.

Weapons of mass destruction!

Bowfin Submarine that served in WWII

This is part of the U.S.S. Arizona that the memorial is built over. Notice the oil in the water. It is coming from the Arizona, still after all these year.

Oil from the U.S.S. Arizona.

Wall inside the memorial naming those who were on the U.S.S. Arizona that day.

Looking inside the memorial.

Pearl Harbor Memorial