1. The U.S.S. Arizona BB-39

2. The first photograph Americans saw of Arizona in the Pearl Harbor attack

3. Sailor’s scrapbook, recovered from the wreck

4. Crew, 1924

5. Heavy seas, off the California coast, mid 1930s

6. Recovered “letterman’s sweater”

7. 1931: Underway during President Hoover’s visit

8. Sheen from oil, still leaking from the wreck

9. Binoculars with lanyard, recovered from the wreck

10. Recovered service cap

11. Ship’s band, Nov. 22, 1941… …All of these men were killed on December 7

12. One of the Arizona’s bandsmen, Jack Leo Scruggs, went to Arroyo Grande High Scruggs and two other bandsmen were preparing to play the National Anthem when a Japanese bomb blew them off the ship and into the water. Scruggs probably drowned.

13. Flag recovered from a crew member’s body

15. 14-inch guns from Arizona’s sister ship, Pennsylvania

16. Arizona’s #1 gun turret is still intact

17. The attack begins: Taken from a Japanese airplane about 7:55 a.m.

18. “Battleship Row:” Arizona is not hit yet; Oklahoma is beginning to capsize

19. “Battleship Row”—oil flooding out of West Virginia and Oklahoma

20. Destroyer Shaw exploding

21. Two bombs on Arizona’s stern about 8:05; this is the moment when Jack Scruggs dies

22. The fatal bomb: Arizona is hit forward, moments later

23. This clock was in the cabin of Arizona’s chaplain

24. It took three days for the fire to burn itself out

25. “ Battleship Row” three days after the attack; note the Oklahoma and Arizona

26. Burial ashore: Most of the Arizona dead remain aboard

27. Arizona today

28. A scale model of the memorial and the wreck

29. “Last Mooring,” Arizona in her last berth, Pearl Harbor, December 5, 1941

30. Beneath Pearl Harbor today

36. The air trapped in the upper half of this porthole is from December 7, 1941

39. The impact December 7 would have on the South County would be devastating

40. From a book by John Loomis and Gordon Bennett: AGUHS before the War

41. And this is the Letterman’s Club By the following year, a third of these AG Eagles would be in internment camps for Japanese-Americans I grew up here, and I don’t recognize some of these names; those families never came back The coach in this photograph would be killed in the Pacific in 1943