The Battleship Uss Arizona

Author : Paul Stillwell
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591146780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleship Arizona written by Paul Stillwell and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs help tell the history of the Battleship Arizona from her keel laying in 1941 to her tragic end with the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Author : Joy Waldron Jasper
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312993511
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The USS Arizona written by Joy Waldron Jasper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid account of the events of December 7, 1941, details what occurred on the ship that suffered the loss of 1,177 men and how it was transformed into a potent symbol of American grit and resolve. photos. Martin's Press.

Author : Edward C. Raymer
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511023
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descent into Darkness written by Edward C. Raymer and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet. Now for the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations, Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer, USN (Ret.), tells the whole story of the desperate attempts to save crewmembers caught inside their sinking ships. Descent into Darkness is the only book available that describes the raising and salvage operations of sunken battleships following the December 7th attack. Once Raymer and his crew of divers entered the interiors of the sunken shipwrecks—attempting untested and potentially deadly diving techniques—they experienced a world of total blackness, unable to see even the faceplates of their helmets. By memorizing the ships’ blueprints and using their sense of touch, the divers groped their way hundreds of feet inside the sunken vessels to make repairs and salvage vital war material. The divers learned how to cope with such unseen dangers as falling objects, sharks, the eerie presence of floating human bodies, and the constant threat of Japanese attacks from above. ​Though many of these divers were killed or seriously injured during the wartime salvage operations, on the whole they had great success performing what seemed to be impossible jobs. Among their credits, Raymer’s crew raised the sunken battleships West Virginia, Nevada, and California. After Pearl Harbor they moved on to other crucial salvage work off Guadalcanal and the sites of other great sea battles.

Author : MacKinnon Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573062800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book USS Arizona written by MacKinnon Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out the lives of 1177 men aboard her. The huge battleship led a fascinating life before her demise, and--as a poignant symbol of the attack that thrust the United States into World War II--has impacted millions of lives since. She lays where she sank, in the silt of Pearl Harbor, spanned now by a graceful white memorial that pays tribute to her dead. MacKinnon Simpson's newest book, USS Arizona - Warship [[ Tomb [[ Monument, pays tribute to the ship, her crews, and her symbolism through the years. Packed with many rarely-before seen images, the book includes such unlikely characters as Elvis Presley, whose benefit concert helped trigger the fund-raising for the Memorial, and Henry Williams, a three-year-old boy who placed the first bolt in her keel in 1915 and read a newspaper by the light of her raging fires as a lieutenant at Pearl Harbor in 1941. USS Arizona - Warship [[ Tomb [[ Monument tells a story that needed to be told, of why the Arizona is still so important to people from around the world who trek to visit her each year.

Author : Waldemar Goralski
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788362878536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battleship USS Arizona written by Waldemar Goralski and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.

Author : Ingo Bauernfeind
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783981598421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uss Arizona written by Ingo Bauernfeind and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated and very personal book covers the history of the battleship USS Arizona from her launch to her loss on December 7, 1941 when she was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn about the ship's enduring legacy firsthand as told by survivors, historians, enemies, sons of admirals, and people who have a personal connection to the Arizona. Moreover, this book provides a detailed examination of the Arizona's wreck by archaeologists of the National Parks Service looking for ways to preserve her for the future. Learn about the tribute given by presidents and foreign dignitaries in order to honor Arizona's fallen crew. The book includes a download video with oral histories by Arizona survivors as well as narrated underwater footage of the wreck.

Author : David Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897476416
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book USS Arizona written by David Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dick Camp
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760327173
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battleship Arizona's Marines At War written by Dick Camp and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 1941, about twenty minutes into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an armor-piercing bomb struck the USS Arizona, penetrating four decks before exploding. An immense fire, fed by ammunition and fuel oil, swept through the ship, instantly killing hundreds of men. The Arizona quickly settled to the bottom of the harbor, taking most of her crew of 1,514 with her. Of the 88 Marines assigned to the battleship, only 15 survived. This account of the Arizona’s Marines on that fateful day, the first to tell their little-known story, also covers the broader history of shipboard Marines as well as the Arizona from her launch in World War I to the dawn of America’s entry into World War II. With more than 100 historic photographs, many never before published, the book is a fitting tribute to Marine detachment Arizona and to all of America's ship-borne Marines. Includes 5 appendices: a copy of the original Muster Roll from December 1, 1941; a copy of the posthumously-awarded letter of commendation to the family of 2nd Lt. C.E. Simensen; a copy of the original affidavit and casualty roster from December 7; an unknowingly heartbreaking letter from Capt. F.V. Valkenburgh to his girlfriend confirming their date to see the movies on the quarterdeck of the Arizona on the evening of December 7; and an appendix listing updated profiles of the Marines detailed in the story.

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516446424
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the U. S. S. Arizona written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1977-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter R. Borneman
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316438871
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothers Down written by Walter R. Borneman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply personal and never-before-told account of one of America's darkest days, from the bestselling author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War. The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history. America's battleship fleet was crippled, thousands of lives were lost, and the United States was propelled into a world war. Few realize that aboard the iconic, ill-fated USS Arizona were an incredible seventy-nine blood relatives. Tragically, in an era when family members serving together was an accepted, even encouraged, practice, sixty-three of the Arizona's 1,177 dead turned out to be brothers. In Brothers Down, acclaimed historian Walter R. Borneman returns to that critical week of December, masterfully guiding us on an unforgettable journey of sacrifice and heroism, all told through the lives of these brothers and their fateful experience on the Arizona. Weaving in the heartbreaking stories of the parents, wives, and sweethearts who wrote to and worried about these men, Borneman draws from a treasure trove of unpublished source material to bring to vivid life the minor decisions that became a matter of life or death when the bombs began to fall. More than just an account of familial bonds and national heartbreak, what emerges promises to define a turning point in American military history.