US-Battleship ARIZONA after modernization at Norfolk Navy Yard dated 2nd March, 1931. Starboard rear quarter view of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia (USA), in March 1931 following her modernization. To the right are the destroyers USS Blakeley (DD-150) and USS Biddle (DD-151). Public Domain.

During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, ARIZONA was bombed. She exploded and sank, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen. The wreck of ARIZONA remains at Pearl Harbor to commemorate the men of her crew lost that December morning in 1941. The national memorial was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 15 October 1966. The ship herself was designated a National Historic Landmark on 5 May 1989.