The battleship USS Missouri sits directly opposite the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. At 887 feet long, the ship was built after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and saw action in WWII, Korea and the Persian Gulf before returning to Honolulu in 1991 for the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Hawaiian Islands. The two white floating piers (center left) represent two other destroyers that were sunk along with the Arizona in the 1941 attack that claimed the lives of some 2,400 military personnel and civilians.
The Missouri and Arizona provide a symbolic connection from the day of the initial attack to the formal ending of World War II.
