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after first seeing a historical movie about museum and park. The CHIEF'S
the Pearl Harbor attack. GUIDED TOUR takes visitors through
the ship, including to the Combat
On side two you will find a highly- Engagement Center. The CAPTAIN'S
detailed and accurate computer-aided TOUR is a VIP tour that includes
drawing of the USS ARIZONA. This refreshments in the Captain's cabin and
sounds fancy, but it is really just drawing souvenirs. The
with a mouse. The captions on this
drawing are: EXPLORER'S TOUR includes an in-
depth tour throughout the ship, and
USS ARIZONA (BB39) The ARIZONA includes a pass to the Mighty Mo Snack
was launched on June 19, 1915, and was Bar. There are also audio tours, souvenir
upgraded in the 1930's to counter Japan's shops, and a Combat Motion Simulator to
quest to control the Pacific. She was a try out. The Battleship MISSOURI
formidable battleship, with steel armor Memorial is an educational and extremely
and a dozen 14" guns. She also had inspiring monument. The MISSOURI is
underwater torpedo tubes, eight anti- visited via shuttle bus across Ford Island
aircraft guns, and could launch seaplanes Bridge. It departs from the parking lot
for scouting. She now sits with only her next to the USS BOWFIN Submarine
aft gun turret rising just above the sea Museum and Park.
harbor surface.
On side two you will also find a highly-
USS ARIZONA (BB39) STATISTICS: detailed and accurate computer-aided
Class: Battleship (BB)Length: 608 feet drawing of the USS MISSOURI. This
(211 meters) Beam: 106 feet, 3 inches drawing and its accompanying
(32.4 meters) Draft Limit: 29 feet 10 photograph depict the Mighty Mo” well,
inches (9.1 meters) Full Displacement: but there is nothing like climbing the steps
34,207 tons Sailors Aboard When to the deck of the ship and having your
Attacked: 1,554Sailors Who Died on USS first look at those incredible 16-inch guns.
ARIZONA: 1,177 Do you know that two of those guns
together outweighs a huge 747 jetliner?
BATTLESHIP MISSOURI MEMORIAL When you take a tour of the “mighty Mo”
Visitors come aboard the world's last you will not only view America and the
active battleship, BB 63, and relive the world's last and greatest battleship, but
stories of adventure, war, victory and the you will also learn many things that you
road to peace in the Pacific. It was aboard ought to know. Such as that it was on this
the Mighty Mo that the official signing of ship that the official signatures
the end of World War II took place. The representing the Japanese Empire's
Battleship Missouri Memorial ticket unconditional surrender in World War II
office is located next to the USS BOWFIN were done. From this spot you can look
