USS Arizona (BB-39)

On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Arizona was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Of the ship's 1,514 crewmen, 1,177 were killed, the largest loss of life ever suffered in one day aboard a US warship. Although the USS Arizona is remembered primarily for its destruction on America's first day of the Second World War, the ship nonetheless enjoyed a proud and distinguished twenty-five year naval career.