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Arizona – The Last Navy Super Dreadnought Battleship


Construction of
Arizona – then known simply as Battleship 39 – began in March 1914 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which ran twenty-four hours per day and at full capacity employed 70,000 workers. It was originally assumed the warship would be named
North Carolina in honor of the home state of Josephus Daniels, the Navy secretary.
It has been common practice in recent years for U.S. Navy sailors who served on the battleship USS
Arizona (BB-39) to have their ashes scattered over the wreck site –  a way for them to be reunited with those crew members who were lost when the ship was sunk on December 7, 1941. More than thirty sailors who survived the attack had chosen the site as their final resting place. ....

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