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HANGAR 37 is Phase I of the museum                    This site is seldom visited due to lack of
            development and will open to the public               drive-up convenience. The ship capsized
            on December 7,  2006. The hangar  is                  after being struck by two torpedoes during
            42,000 square feet, and  will feature  a              the December 7, 1941  Pearl Harbor
            World War II era aircraft and artifacts, a            attack, and remains that way today. The
            theater,  a store, a restaurant, a flight             exact number of sailors who died during
            simulation center, and an education center            the  Pearl Harbor attack and are still
            for children.                                         entombed inside is not known.

            HANGAR 79 is Phase II of the museum                   IMAGES
            development. The hangar is 76,000 square
            feet, and  will contain aircraft exhibits             A handful of color photographs appear on
            focusing  on the Korean, Vietnam,  and                this side of Franko's Map of Pearl Harbor.
            Cold Wars. It will also include replicas of           They show you a brief overview of what
            modern aircraft and spacecraft.                       is there. Again, a picture tells a thousand
                                                                  words, but in this case, you just have to go
            HANGAR 54 is Phase III of the museum                  there to see and feel the spirit of Pearl
            development. The hangar is 86,000 square              Harbor. On July 4, 2006, I was at Pearl
            feet, and will contain exhibits focusing on           Harbor, right next to the USS ARIZONA
            World War II in the Pacific. It will also             Memorial and Visitor Center to witness
            feature a full-scale replica of  part of an           the Independence Day fireworks. As they
            aircraft carrier flight deck.                         blasted and illuminated the world's
                                                                  greatest Navy ship, the aircraft carrier
            THE  CONTROL TOWER Phase  IV of                       USS RONALD  REAGAN,  on the near
            the      Pacific      Aviation       Museum           side of the channel and  the  USS
            development will feature the Ford                     MISSOURI on the far side of the channel,
            Airfield's Control Tower, opening in                  as well as the USS ARIZONA Memorial,
            2008.                                                 I felt happy and proud to have created this
                                                                  map to show the world what Pearl Harbor
            USS UTAH MEMORIAL  Because the                        has come to mean to me. However, with
            USS UTAH  Memorial is  not easily                     the simple Fourth of July fireworks and
            accessible to the public, few are able to             the booms they made, I realized that one
            pay their respects to the loss of this ship           really cannot express in words or pictures
            and her crewmen, many of whom are still               the awful tragedy of war, or any portion of
            entombed within, ever since she was                   it. I can only hope that these photographs,
            torpedoed and capsized on December 7,                 which were the finishing touches to this
            1941. However, she certainly deserves an              huge project will tell a little bit more of
            honorable mention on the face of this                 the story. The photos are described as
            map. IT is difficult to pay her a proper              follows:
            respect, but here is the caption I wrote:
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