Pearl Harbor Hawai'i
Did You Know?
The harbor was teeming with pearl-producing oysters until the late 1800s.
Luke Field airfield is no longer used as a runway because it is too small for modern jets, but the control tower and several hangers remained standing and they are sometimes used in films about Pearl Harbor.
Franklin Roosevelt was president at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Admiral Arthur W. Radford, ComPacFit, started the tradition of hoisting the US flag over the ship March 7, 1950.
The USS Oklahoma was sold as scrap December 5, 1946 and sank under tow May 17, 1947, 540 miles out from Pearl Harbor enroute to San Francisco for scrapping.
The back reads:
USS Arizona
Arizona burning after forward magazines exploded Dec. 7, 1941 and USS Arizona at sea off California, late April 1932.
Arizona Memorial Museum Association
unused, bought at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, 2012
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