Battleships "Arizona" and "Pennsylvania". Pearl Harbor Memorial and flagship of the U.S. Navy

"Arizona"! I remember you!" – shouted American pilots on the air, dropping bombs on Japanese ships. The loss of this battleship and 1200 sailors struck the hearts of Americans throughout World War II. On December 7, 1941, during the attack... on Pearl Harbor, an armor-piercing bomb hit the powder magazines of the "Arizona." Their contents burned within seconds, literally shaking the heavens. Compartments and passages turned into the furnaces of a crematorium, filled with thousands of charred bodies. The "Arizona" burned for three days, and for several more days, its heated deck could not be approached. As a ship lost in battle under enemy fire, the battleship was awarded the Bronze Star. Today, the wreckage of the immense battleship, transformed into a memorial, rests at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, becoming a brotherly grave for the crew. A new book by a leading expert on the history of the U.S. Navy for the first time in domestic literature details the creation, construction, and service of the "Arizona," as well as its sister ship, the battleship "Pennsylvania" – the lead ship of the class, which for thirty years served as the flagship of the U.S. Navy. In 1917, it was even visited by Admiral Kolchak, who actively fought in the Pacific from the Aleutian Islands and Okinawa to the battles for the Philippines, and in 1946 participated in atomic bomb tests as a target ship. The publication is illustrated with exclusive drawings and photographs of the famous battleships.