BGuthrie Photos: HI -- Pearl Harbor -- USS Arizona Memorial

HI -- Pearl Harbor -- USS Arizona Memorial:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show? [Slideshow]

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

[1] AZ_041027_004_STITCH.JPG

Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

[2] AZ_041027_010.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] AZ_041027_014.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] AZ_041027_035.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[5] AZ_041027_037.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[6] AZ_041027_048.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[7] AZ_041027_084.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[8] AZ_041027_163.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] AZ_041027_173.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] AZ_041027_227.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[11] AZ_041027_266.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] AZ_041027_280.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[13] AZ_041027_289.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[14] AZ_041027_301.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] AZ_041027_317.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[16] AZ_041027_347.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[17] AZ_041027_365.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] AZ_041027_412.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[19] AZ_041027_429.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[20] AZ_041027_438.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[21] AZ_041027_449.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[22] AZ_041027_477.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[23] AZ_041027_500.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[24] AZ_041027_513.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[25] AZ_041027_520.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AZ_041027_010.JPG: Herb Weatherwax. Born in Honolulu, he was drafted into the US Army in June, 1941. After his basic training, he was assigned to the 298th Infantry Regiment located at Schofield Barracks, Oahu. On December 7, 1941, Private Weatherwax was one a weekend pass when he heard an announcement over a local radio station that Pearl Harbor was under attack by Japanese forces and that all military personnel should report to their duty stations. On his way to Schofield Barracks, he witnessed the destruction at Pearl Harbor and at Wheeler Airfield near Schofield.
2. AZ_041027_035.JPG: One of the two bells of the USS Arizona B8-39. The other bell is at the bell tower at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Both bells weigh 1,252 pounds.
3. AZ_041027_301.JPG: USS Arizona Memorial @ Pearl Harbor
4. AZ_041027_477.JPG: Note the petals amongst the oil slick. People bring leis and drop the petals off.
5. AZ_041027_500.JPG: This is the anchor of the Arizona
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3): [1 col] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
Wikipedia Description: USS Arizona Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor, Hawai?i, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 by Japanese imperial forces and commemorates the events of that day. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the island of O?ahu was the action that led to United States involvement in World War II.

The memorial, dedicated in 1962, spans the sunken hull of the battleship without touching it. Since it opened in 1980, the National Park Service has operated the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center associated with the memorial. Historical information about the attack, boat access to the memorial, and general visitor services are available at the center. One of the two 19,585 pound anchors of the Arizona is displayed at the entrance of the visitor center. (Its twin is at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix.)

National Memorial:

Description:

There are three main parts to the national memorial: entry, assembly room, and shrine. The central assembly room features seven large open windows on either wall and ceiling, to commemorate the date of the attack. The total number of windows is 21. This stands for a 21 gun salute or 21 Marines standing at eternal parade rest over the tomb of the fallen. It also contains an opening in the floor overlooking the sunken decks of the oil-seeping wreck. The oil seeping is sometimes referred to as "the tears of the Arizona" or "black tears." It is from this opening that visitors come to pay their respects by tossing flowers and lei in honor of the fallen sailors. Every President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt, and every Emperor of Japan since Hirohito, has made a pilgrimage to the site. The shrine at the far end is a marble wall that bears the names of all those killed on the USS Arizona, protected behind velvet ropes. Contrary to popular belief, the USS Arizona is no lo ...More...
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Park (National Park Service)] [World War II]
2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link: [Thumbnails Only]
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].