> USS Arizona hulk is now sacred to Americans. I have visited the site and it
> is very moving. I am glad they left her 'in situ'. I think of my vist to her
> whenerver I see TORA TORA TORA or other movies about Dec 7 1941. Apparently
> the Arizona's superstructure (or part of it) is preserved near the entrance
> to the harbour.
Anchor and radio mast for the USS Arizona are part of a memorial in Leslie Bolen
Park at the captial in Phoenix, Arizona
> The Argentine cruiser (?) BELGRANO that was torpedoed and sunk by a British
> sub during the Falklands (Las Malvinas to the Argies) War (1982?) was
> apparently a former US cruiser that had survived the Pearl Harbour attack.
>
The Belgrano was the USS Phoenix and given to Argentina after the war.
Ben P. Fisher, Jr. Corona, Arizona
1953 M38A1 USMC
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