Pearl Harbor Warbirds offers the best Hawai‘i flight adventure tours available. Flying over Oahu and the bases that were attacked on that “Day of Infamy” serves as a tribute to the Americans who died as well as an unforgettable journey through history and the beautiful Hawaiian skies. On a Pearl Harbor Warbirds flight tour, you can retrace the steps of the casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack from an aerial perspective. Even the USS Arizona, over which the Pearl Harbor memorial museum was constructed, still leaks fuel nearly 75 years after the attack. Many of these have been left in order to serve as a reminder for military members to persevere through times of crisis and tragedy. To this day, bullet holes and other damages from the attack on Pearl Harbor can be seen at many of Oahu’s active military areas, including Wheeler Army Airfield, Schofield Barracks and Hickam Army Airfield. Eighteen ships–including five battleships–were either sunk or run aground during the attack.
Navy Band Unit (NBU) 22, which comprised the USS Arizona‘s entire military band, was one unique group of casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack: this marks the only point in American history that an entire military band has died in action.
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More than 30 former crewmen of the USS Arizona who survived the horrific Pearl Harbor attack have chosen the location as their final resting place. A full military funeral precedes a burial ceremony, during which divers place the veteran’s urn within one of the USS Arizona‘s gun turrets. Nearly half of the casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack occurred on the USS Arizona, which burst into flames when a bomb hit its onboard ammunition room–killing 1,177 American servicemen. Sixty-five Japanese fighters were either killed or wounded. In the 110 minutes it took for the Japanese attackers to swarm the skies over Oahu and spray American bases below with bombs, there were 2,335 U.S. With relatively few losses from the Japanese forces and more than 2,000 American deaths, the casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack careened the United States into World War II. The attack on Pearl Harbor in the morning hours of Decemleft the nation reeling.