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of a 50-caliber machine gun for which he attractions at present day Pearl Harbor,
had no training, and fired at Japanese and about the USS UTAH memorial. The
planes, downing at least one. Miller four main attractions are the USS
became the first African American ever to ARIZONA Memorial, the USS
receive the Navy Cross, the second MISSOURI Museum, the USS BOWFIN
highest award given. He and 76 other Submarine Museum and Park, and the
Pearl Harbor heroes had future Navy ships Pacific Aviation Museum, slated to open
named after them. On November 24, 1943 on December 7, 2006, with ongoing
Miller died in action when his ship, the phases opening for several years to come.
USS LISCOMBE BAY, was sunk by the Also shown are the locations of the
enemy. Battleship MISSOURI Memorial ticket
office, the Battleship MISSOURI
(President Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial shuttle pickup, (which will also
addressing a joint session of Congress at soon serve for the Pacific Aviation
the Nation's Capitol) On December 8, Museum pickup), the USS ARIZONA
1941 President Franklin Delano Memorial Visitor Center, and the USS
Roosevelt addressed a joint session of ARIZONA Memorial boat launch.
Congress to formally request a
Declaration of War with Japan. The USS ARIZONA Memorial
president emotionally spoke the following
famous words: "Yesterday, December 7, The USS ARIZONA is the final resting
1941 - a date which will live in infamy - place for over 900 of the 1,177 crewmen
the United States was suddenly and who died on December 7, 1941. The
deliberately attacked by naval and air Memorial is a 184-foot (56-meter) long
forces of the Empire of Japan. "The unity bridge which spans directly midship over
of the United States reached an all-time the sunken battleship. It has a boat dock
high. Every American alive at the time that leads to an entry and assembly rooms,
knows the cry, "Remember Pearl a central area for ceremonies and
Harbor!" Out of the ashes of this defeat observation, and a shrine room, where the
came America's resilience and names of those sailors who were killed on
determination to preserve peace so that the Arizona are engraved in a white
these dead shall not have died in vain. marble wall. The memorial honors those
who died in the attack. Initially the
SIDE TWO OF FRANKO'S MAP OF memorial was a flagpole with an
PEARL HARBOR American flag and a commemorative
plaque, but by 1962 this serene and
This side of Franko's Map of Pearl Harbor respectful structure was constructed. The
is a depiction of Pearl Harbor as it is USS ARIZONA Memorial is visited via
today. On this rendering of Pearl Harbor shuttle boat launch from the visitor center
you will read about the four main
