The Pacific War Memorial Commission was created in 1949 to build a permanent memorial in Hawaii. While Ripley's original idea for a memorial was disregarded due to the cost, the Navy continued with the idea of creating a memorial. Manning to Robert Ripley regarding the need for a permanent Pearl Harbor memorial The USS Arizona Memorial is one of several sites in Hawaii that are part of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial.Ī letter RAdm J.J. The battleship's sunken remains were declared a National Historic Landmark on May 5, 1989. Historical information about the attack, shuttle boats to and from the memorial, and general visitor services are available at the associated USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center, which opened in 1980 and is operated by the National Park Service. Accessible only by boat, it straddles the sunken hull of the battleship without touching it.

The memorial, built in 1962, is visited by more than two million people annually. The attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' involvement in World War II. The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day.

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